Remember Web TV? Why can’t Microsoft market? The company has placed its toes into the TV market at least since it s purchase of Web TV in 1996. This history is a long one … with promises, showy purchases, set top boxes, creation of MSNBC, and claims the X Box would dominate the livin[...]
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October 29th, 2013 - 4:19 am § in The Ave Scene
BALMER BLUES: Chromecast: Another Missed Opportunity for Microsoft
October 17th, 2013 - 11:34 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Balmer Blues: Windows 8.1 … C-.
Microsoft’s release of 8.1 is a near failure. The biggest single issue for most users was the Start Menu … IT IS STILL NOT THERE! C- is a generous score! What Balmer’s buddies did is insulting to users who wanted the Start Menu to .. START PROGRAMS! Instead the bunglers at MS have [...]
October 16th, 2013 - 10:13 am § in The Ave Scene
Balmer Blunders: Who writes their ads?????
WATCH THE VIDEOS:[...]
October 7th, 2013 - 12:59 pm § in The Ave Scene
Balmer Blues: THE Ave banned from Microsoft Stores
I guess somebody in Redmond is reading the Ave. This site is now blocked if you try to connect form a Microsoft store. A friend in China tells me we are banned there too! Maybe I should add warning label te the front page? BANNED IN REDMOND Readmore about Microsoft on THE Ave.[...]
September 21st, 2013 - 1:03 pm § in Misc.
Balmer Blues: He apologizes for a huge ‘F up!
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer is finally admitting what everyone has been thinking: Microsoft made a huge mistake with the Surface RT tablet. Huff Post “We built a few more devices than we could sell,” Ballmer reportedly said. Balmer is utterly missing the boat. MS did not build too m[...]
September 3rd, 2013 - 9:03 am § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Another Balmer Blunder … Microsoft Acquires Nokia’s Mobile Phone Business At Garage Sale
I thought retirement meant stopping. Now Mr. Balmer seems to have doubled down! Reuters reports that : Microsoft Acquires Nokia’s Mobile Phone Business For $7.2 Billion Nokia has collapsed into the arms of its boss’s former comppany … Microsoft. , Stephen Elop, who ran Microsof[...]
August 23rd, 2013 - 11:13 am § in The Ave Scene
Balmer Blues: Retirement
Steve Balmer has been fired! The media are being very polite about this but the message is clear … Balmer is leaving because of a failure to lead. He may be a wonderful business man .. probably would be good as the boss at IBM, Oracle, or SAP… but Microsoft is in competition with A[...]
August 14th, 2013 - 12:38 pm § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Balmer Blues: Why are there Microsoft Stores?
Here in Seattle Microsoft is a pretty big thing .. we actually care abut our neighbors … my daughter married a Microsoft engineer. So I was pleased when Mr. Balmer opened a store in University Village .. even if the store was a faux copy of an existing Apple store a few across a parking [&hell[...]
August 7th, 2013 - 8:13 am § in The Ave Scene
Balmer Blues: Rupert Murdoch Drubs Steve Balmer
Balmer to rebrand SkyDrive after losing trademark skirmish to Murdoch’s BskyB. Microsoft is going to be rebranding SkyDrive, its cloud storage service, following its loss of a trademark battle with British Sky Broadcasting Group over the “Sky” name. A joint press release by [...]
Balmer’s Blunders, ctd
Now that Microsoft has bought out Nokia, Balmer’s company is trying to convince the world that the Windows Phones will win by somehow doing better marketing. The critics doubt this. Chris Silva, an analyst with the Altimeter Group, argues that “The app ecosystem is the least likely to be[...]