From the Forums: Internet Explorer 90s commercial and Microsoft's potential downfall?

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Forum member AdalLS has brought to the attention a Forbes opinion piece, written by Adam Hartung. The article goes into the negatives surrounding Microsoft and its functioning. Taking into account numerous sources, it's a definite downer and is perfect for reading on a rainy day. A short snippet of the opening paragraph:

"Microsoft needed a great Christmas season. Later on years of product stagnation, and a large market shift toward mobile devices from PCs, Microsoft's future relied on the company seeing customers demonstrate they were ready to bound in heavily for Windows8 products – including the new Surface tablet. But that did not happen."

At present whatever yous may experience about the author, website or sources used in the editorial, it definitely sparks upwardly the debate on "what if?" What if Microsoft did get downwardly a down screw path of self-destruction? Information technology's a difficult idea to procedure - a world without Microsoft. An impossibility?

So is this actually the end of Microsoft, or the beginning of the company's downfall? Add together your thoughts and opinions in the "Forbes heralds the end of times for Microsoft" thread.

Microsoft needs to sentry out for RIM

BlackBerry 10 is shortly upon us and Microsoft is already struggling to gain traction in the industry, so what's going to happen when RIM hits back? Forum member jjmurphy believes Microsoft should focus on improving relations with developers. Both those already established on the platform and who have yet to submit an app.

A number of suggestions on how the company can quickly amend things have been provided:

Brand submitting apps free for the residuum of 2022, including the tools necessary to build them.
Change the marketplace to hide 1-2 star apps unless the end user requests to see them. (setting a review threshold that apps have to receive before filters kick in.)
Alter the marketplace to really promote four-5 star high quality apps.
Ready a budgetary pay off organization. i.eastward. If you lot have an app that stays 4 stars for 10-months, give a bonus. Go far a scale so that developers will desire to keep calculation value to an app.
Fix their own apps. FB, Photosynth, etc.

Be sure to add your suggestions of what you want to see Microsoft do for developers in the "Microsoft needs to pay attending to RIM in regards to developers" thread.

Miscellaneous: humorous 90s Internet Explorer 10 commercial

Our own Krystea has embedded this pretty humorous Internet Explorer ten commercial on the forum, which sees Microsoft recap on everything that rocked dorsum in the 90s. It's also a actually well put together advert. How does 1 feel about IE now we're on Windows 8 and Windows Phone eight?

You can check out the word in the "Nostalgic IE10 commercial" thread. Intendance to relive your 90s moments and memories?

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