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"It is the same sambar everyday," admits Suganya, a high school student, trying to reason the wastage at noon meal centres where she acknowledges food is passably palatable.
School students in Tiruchi district may soon get a break from the daily routine of rice, sambar and boiled egg. The monotonous menus are all set for a makeover with healthy and delicious alternatives like tomato rice, groundnut pulao and vegetable biryani to be prepared by noon meal workers.
The initiative to tweak noon meal menus with imagination, nutrition and variation was introduced by the district administration through a training programme by Chef Dhamu for noon meal workers from 25 centres on Tuesday.
While smells of roast spices wafting in the air and shrill whistles of a pressure cooker may have indicated a kitchen setting, the cooking demonstration by the celebrity chef was actually in the middle of the playground at a government school in Allur near Tiruchi.
"The obvious question is whether it is possible to prepare these dishes with the provisions allotted under the scheme and stick to the budget," said District Collector Jayshree Muridharan who kick-started the pilot project. "No extra ingredients have been bought. These dishes can be prepared with whatever grains and vegetables provided everyday."
As an experiment, noon meal workers prepared Tuesday's staple menu of sambar rice, boiled egg and groundnut sundal for 100 students. But Chef Dhamu , using the same ingredients turned out groundnut pulao, roasted potatoes and tossed eggs in a mixture of pepper and coriander powder.
"Not all that is served everyday is consumed by students. But it was heartening to see children polishing their plates," said Ms.Muralidharan. She motivated noon meal workers, "You must take pride in your work, as you don the role of mothers by preparing hot food for scores of children."
The women trained in the pilot programme would train workers from other centres during the summer vacation.
"I have seen students play ball with hard boiled eggs made in noon meal centres. For children to eat well, we need to cook well," Mr.Dhamu told workers demonstrating how a dash of pepper or a smatter of chilli powder can spice up a meal.
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Many of the workers were thrilled at receiving practical hints in offsetting excesses in salt, chilli powder and tamarind.
Insisting that safety and hygiene were paramount, he suggested, "If you wash all vegetables with water, turmeric and salt, you can rule out all chances of food poisoning," said Mr.Dhamu. Though cleaning utensils, keeping cooking range spick and span, and covering all chopped vegetables were important, preparing and serving food with love was foremost, he said.
While Rs.14 is allotted per child covering firewood, oil , rice , centres are granted 70 paise per head to purchase vegetables and condiments. M.Uma, a worker from Kuriviyan kulam said, "It might be difficult to make all these dishes owing to escalating prices of daily provisions, but we can definitely provide students more variety in their mid-day meal."


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More than 90 employers expected to attend this fall's Marshall Career Expo
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HUNTINGTON — Marshall University Career Services will conduct its annual Fall Career Expo from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in the Memorial Student Center's Don Morris Room on the Huntington campus.
The expo is open to all Marshall students, faculty, staff and alumni. Recruiters will be sharing information on part-time, full-time and internship positions.
More than 90 employers are expected to have recruiters at the event, representing the areas of customer service, IT/computer science, health care, media sales, engineering, insurance/financial services, corrections, retail management and many others. A continually updated list of employers planning to attend the Career Expo is available at www.marshall.edu/career-services/events/careerexpo.html.
Denise Hogsett, director of Career Services, said students are encouraged to dress professionally and come prepared with multiple copies of their resumes. Hogsett said even if students are not looking for a job, attending the expo presents an excellent networking opportunity.
This fall's Career Expo is expected to be one of the largest in recent years. Debby Stoler, assistant director for development and outreach, said, "We are excited about the number of companies attending the Expo this fall. We should have over 90 tables occupied, the most we have had for the last couple of years. New and growing businesses are providing good employment opportunities for our students and alumni."
Career Services will also have an open house from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, for resume review, tips on networking, and free printing of business cards and copies of students' resumes. No appointment is necessary. Students may also call Career Services for an appointment to create or review their resumes with a career counselor.
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ORLANDO - Local speed enthusiast and ageless wonder Willard Kinzer won his third Wally on December 16 at Orlando Speed World Dragway. The weekend event was Carl Weisinger's farewell to the racetrack that he had managed for 25 years. With this being Weisinger's farewell race it also brings to mind Willard's grandson's race at Eldora Speedway in 2004. Brandon Kinzer won the UMP National Late Model race in October of 2004 as owner Earl Baltes gave his farewell to the Rossburg, Ohio track after 51 years of service.
Willard was the top qualifier in the 1/8 mile Small Tire X275 class which is quite a change from the 1/4 Mile 10.5W class he normally participates in. The Orlando track, because of the "wavy" surface, is a challenge to any driver to keep his car grounded at high speeds. This required a completely new tune and setup by Patrick Barnhill and Jeff Lutz on his 1989 Twin Turbo Mustang.
The announcer introduced Willard as he rolled up to the line as the 84 year youngster driving the "fastest car in the United States" only to correct himself by stating "the fastest car in the world" but, not taking any chances…correction again, "fastest car in the universe." Willard was indeed the fastest car in his class that night in Orlando with his quickest time of 4.99s at 167MPH through the 1/8 mile. Willard was in the zone all weekend as he not only won every race but did so in part by having his 84-year-old reflexes provide him the best light against every opponent with the slowest reaction time of the weekend being a .089. Now, for anyone that doesn't follow racing close, that means that the 84-year-old reacted in .089 (.034 was his quickest) of a second from a light changing from yellow to green, all this done on a .400 Pro Tree which requires instant reflexes to begin with. The .089 effort was his slowest reaction time. Guess he must has been day dreaming about his lovely wife Lucy.
Willard powered his Mustang through four races with the Championship race being the most exciting as he went up against the number two qualifier. The car lost traction off the launch and Willard had to get out of the throttle, get the Mustang back to gripping the pavement and finally ran his opponent down just before they tripped the light at the 1/8 mile mark.
Willard started the season winning his second Wally in Bradenton, Fla., early this year and finished up the season winning his 3rd Wally at Orlando Speed World Dragway. Not a bad year for the youngster.


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A day after the stock market dropped 500 points, and a little before the S&P downgraded U.S. debt for the first time in history, I called on Dermot J.M. Boden, a marketing man in the thick of the financial industry. Boden is Chief Brand Officer for Citi, which he joined 4 months ago from LG. We met in Sandy Weil's old corner office overlooking Park Avenue and the famed Four Seasons restaurant.
Boden is a man of many firsts, a marketing pioneer. A native of Dublin, he worked in the U.S., Asia, and Europe during his career. He started in consumer packaged goods with Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. He was LG's first CMO and the only non-Korean among its top management group. And the appointment as Citi's Chief Brand Officer is a first for the bank.
I asked Dermot why an iconic brand like Citibank, arguably the most robust bank brand, needs a "brand officer". He replied that the impetus came from CEO Vikram Pandit, who is a strong believer in the importance of a vigorous brands for all stakeholders, internally and externally. "Our objective is to enhance the emotional appeal of our brand."
Asked where he judges Citi's equity at present compared to where it was before the financial crisis of 2008, he answered, "It varies. The equity was damaged in the U.S. and Europe. Asia and South America managed to get through the crisis more or less unscathed, and Citi remained an aspirational, iconic brand there. In developed countries Citi is in turnaround mode. Citi is coming back,"although he admits that the industry still has a PR problem.
What about a global ad campaign, with the same look and feel everywhere? He says, "Not really. Maybe we'll do something initially, but I believe in setting the overall tone, and an emotional connection with the customers, and letting individual countries, or product lines execute in ways that are best for them". Nevertheless, he has a strong set of principles that will guide Citi advertising in the future: "Consistency, continuity, creativity and coherence".
As Citi nears its 200 anniversary next year, he allows that there will be a campaign celebrating this momentous occasion, and stressing the bank's stability. Citi, amazingly, is the only U.S. bank to have the same name for the last 199 years.
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The PC is dead.
Let me clarify: The personal computer, as imagined by IBM and powered by Microsoft DOS and Windows, is raggedly exhaling its final breaths. In its place is a great big shuddering heap of conflated, commingled, converging software and hardware led by Apple's Mountain Lion and Microsoft's Windows 8.
The shocking thing is just how quickly his convergence has occurred. Released in 2009, both Windows 7 and OS X 10.6 had almost zero cloud-, mobile-, or cross platform features; they were both very much "PC" operating systems. This isn't to say that you couldn't add extra functionality through third-party software, but the out-of-the-box experience, which the vast majority of users experience, was very PC.
In stark contrast, if you take a look at Windows 8 and OS X 10.8, both slated for release in the second half of 2012, almost every feature is somehow linked to the cloud, mobile, or home entertainment; these OSes are no longer PC-oriented, but instead the central, converged hubs for your complete digital existence.
Windows 8 and Mountain Lion, using a single sign-on, will use Windows Live and iCloud to sync all of your documents, images, and music between all of your devices. You will be able to buy a Windows 8 tablet that you can use in the livingroom, and then dock it to a keyboard and mouse when you're at your desk. With AirPlay mirroring and Game Center, Mountain Lion will double up as a home entertainment system, allowing Mac, iPhone, and iPad users to play against each other on an Apple TV. Windows 8 apps will be very easy to port to Windows Phone 8, and Windows 8 apps will automatically sync between five Windows 8 devices (home, office, tablet, and so on).
Furthermore, the difference — and thus friction — between the desktop and mobile OSes is being reduced. In Mountain Lion, a bunch of iOS features have been lifted straight out and inserted into the desktop OS; most notably the Notification Center. Many apps are being renamed so that they match the iOS equivalents, too: iCal becomes Calendar, iChat becomes Messages, and so on. These changes are in addition to Lion's introduction of an app launcher and gestures that are virtually identical to iOS.
On the Windows side, it's impossible to ignore the fact that primary interface — the Metro Start Screen — is very similar to the Windows Phone 7 (and 8). The latest update to the Xbox 360 dashboard is also very Metro-inspired (and there are Xbox Live companion apps for both Windows Phone and Windows 8). Finally, there's a rumor that the Xbox 720 might even be powered by Windows 8. Microsoft insists that the Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 app stores will be separate, but I wouldn't be surprised if — eventually — phone, console, and tablet/laptop/desktop all share the same Metro app store.
Apple has the upper hand
It's clear, then, that Microsoft and Apple have both settled on a post-PC reality — but, interestingly both companies are converging from completely different directions. Microsoft is trying to leverage its way into the tablet and phone market by way of its massive Windows user base. Apple, on the flip side, is trying to get iOS users to pony up for a Mac laptop, Apple TV, and eventually an Apple iTV.
The problem, of course, is that Windows 8 is a massive, revolutionary gamble that takes Microsoft way beyond its comfort zone. For 30 years, Microsoft has been making money on x86 PCs and servers, and the Office suite of software. With Windows 8, Microsoft is moving to a brand new architecture, giving away Office for free, doing away with the Start button and menu, and generally making a huge mess of the Desktop/Explorer side of things. Adding to this, Windows Phone 7 is limping along, and there's no real indication that Windows drives users to the Xbox 360, and vice versa. In short, Microsoft needs Windows 8 to succeed on tablets and drive sales of Windows Phone 8… or it's screwed.
Apple, on the other hand, has the iPhone and iPad; two of the world's most desirable mobile devices. On the back of just these two devices, Apple's fourth quarter revenue was over $46 billion. More than 50 million iPhones and iPads were sold in this period, and it's really no surprise that the same quarter also saw record breaking sales of Macs. In short, Apple already has a huge head start in The Great Convergence. Apple has already made its revolutionary leaps — way back in 2007 with the iPhone, and again with the iPad in 2010 — and the payoff has been huge. Where Microsoft now has to bet it all on a form factor it has no experience with, Apple has a proven formula that it can tweak and refine.
The only way Microsoft will come out of this alive, and maybe even the winner, is if it differentiates itself from Apple.
Imagine that the path to computing convergence is a thick jungle. Apple is pushing ahead, gradually and sensibly chopping away with a machete and occasionally discovering hidden treasures in (oc)cult temples. The path is only wide enough for one, with no possibility of Microsoft (or Samsung or Google) squeezing past. If Microsoft walks in Apple's shadow, which so many other companies have done — if it tries to imitate Apple — it will lose. If Microsoft can forge its own path, perhaps with a metaphorical tractor or some good ol' napalm, it could come out on top.
The good news is that Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 are shaping up to being very different beasts to OS X and iOS. Microsoft won't have the chance to prove that its path to convergence is better than Apple's until they launch, though — and a lot can happen between now and fall. The iPad 3 and iOS 5.1 are due to be announced any day now, and the Apple iTV should appear before Windows 8, too.
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http://twitter.com/Ripperjack_ Ripperjack
I guess this all means for us PC Gamers, that we are going to stay put with Windows 7 for a LONG time to come.
the 'XP era' all over again =/
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rico-Alexander/1238539776 Rico Alexander
You can run pc games on windows 8.
You could run games on Vista as well, but that didn't make it a good idea.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk Sebastian Anthony
Neon Frank
Fista? Is that because you end up punching the monitor, or its how you end up feeling?
http://www.mrseb.co.uk Sebastian Anthony
Because using Vista is like being fisted — or so I hear :P
http://www.mrseb.co.uk Sebastian Anthony
Vista was a pain mainly because of botched drivers. But is now a stable operating system with SP2. What do you think Windows 7 is? Its really Vista R2 or version 6.1.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/QRXP45RIWWQGFDA6DUUK5P4GBE Jason
That is like saying XP was Millenium R2. 7 is to Vista as 2008 R2 is to 2008, but the only thing that kept Microsoft from calling it Server 2010 is that they felt changing the name that soon would cause distrust in Server 2008 as an OS.
You better start educating yourself before posting! W7 and Vista share the same core; in fact W7 is Vista to 95% with a few tweaks here and there …
lol yea basically 7 is vista service pack 2 but they didn't want to stick with a name everyone couldn't stand as 7 was much more marketable as something NEW rather than oh sorry about that we fixed vista now….
7 is a minor improvement to Vista
Vista is a relatively big change to XP kernel + ugly user interface
XP is a minor improvement to Win 2000 + activation
2000 was WinNT 4 + major PnP update
Millenium was Win98 + lots of shit
Win98 was improved Win95
There was no connection between XP and Me.
And Win8 is an improved Win7 with annoying UI…
And Win8 is an improved Win7 with annoying UI…
http://twitter.com/tabinnorway Terje A. Bergesen
Why would it not be a good idea? Win8 is Win7 but leaner, faster and less resource hungry. All things alike, Win8 leaves more of the power of your PC for the game, so running games on Win 8 seems like a better idea than running them on Win7.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514097850 Florent Gjonbalaj
very much agreed.
http://twitter.com/Julzz Χαράλαμπος Pap
we all prefer the Orthodox Operating System (OS X)
Daniël Westerbeek
What is this guy doing here? Check his other comments on this article, too…
Neon Frank
Its as good as your economy :P
http://www.facebook.com/abiddine Abid Din
Windows 8 = windows 7 + WINRT (AKA Metro).
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514097850 Florent Gjonbalaj
couldnt have been said better in fewer words.
Not sure what you are on about but Win8 has no bearing on PC gaming. It will continue as it always has done.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514097850 Florent Gjonbalaj
not necessarily.
windows 8 will essentially be windows 7 + a touch-screen interface (called metro) that you can switch between your familiar desktop to metro very easily. if you think about it, its pretty hard using excel spreadsheets on a touch screen. as far as I know, you still need a mouse and keyboard for data entry
Mark Hagan
No self-respecting member of the IT community would be caught dead running Windows 8 (unless they are required to write code for the 9 users who will use it). If you can't capture developers, network administrators, etc then who is going to recommend this crappy software to end users?
Not me. Windows ME, Windows Vista, Windows 8 FTL.
http://twitter.com/robert_whited Robert Whited
I think you are wrong. Seriously wrong. We shall see. I think 8 makes in roads where IT Admins have been struggling to manage with 3rd party apps.
Mark Hagan
You could be right. I hope for Microsoft's sake that you are. I use my PC for development and prefer a "get stuff done" environment. Windows 8 is not that (by design).
No doubt there are some administrative advantages to Windows 8, but some of those disappear when you have to maintain a mix of operating systems (windows 7 and windows 8). Since Microsoft isolated us power-users, I just don't see any of us telling our friends, family and bosses "yeah, upgrade to Windows 8, it is a good fit!"
Just my opinion, and I hope you are right and it thrives.
Scientific Bob
" I use my PC for development and prefer a "get stuff done" environment. Windows 8 is not that (by design). "
No. The iPad is not that. Android devices are not that. Windows 8 is EXACTLY that.
You'll do everything on win8 that you were doing on windows 7. Your desktop is still there and it works in the exact same way with the exact same software.
Yes, the start menu is gone. So what? Did you know that msft telemetry showed that the vast majority of windows users barely used it?
Especially in windows 7, all frequently used applications either have a shortcut on the desktop or are pinned to the taskbar. No need for a start menu.
Personally, the only reason I used that menu was for the search functionality. And that functionality is still there and even got buffed. It works in the exact same way. It just looks a bit different.
So to conclude: everything you did on win 7, you'll do on win8.
Win 8 ADDS functionality. It doesn't remove anything.
it doesn't remove anything… except my start button and menu… which I love… Sorry but I don't want my desktop/task bar cluttered up with all my different programs. On Win7 I can pin everything I commonly use on the start menu and if i need something I don't commonly use I can just start typing its name in the search box at the bottom and BAM there it is. Win8 and more specifically, its metro interface is taking away the basic way I want my desktop to function… so to conclude: yeah it does remove functionality
Scientific Bob
"On Win7 I can pin everything I commonly use on the start menu "
You can pin it to the taskbar. As well as the metro start screen.
"if i need something I don't commonly use I can just start typing its name in the search box at the bottom and BAM there it is"
Works in the EXACT same way in windows 8. It works even BETTER on windows 8. Not only does it find apps, it also finds settings and things IN apps. And they are all categorized in a way that gives the user a lot more oversight as to what is being found where instead of a (rather short) flat list in a tiny menu.
"yeah it does remove functionality "
You failed to demonstrate wich functionality exactly is being lost.
What in roads?
Honest question, I'd like to know what kinds of advantages you're talking about here.
Scientific Bob
As I mentioned above…
The advantage is that a win 8 machine is just another windows machine.
No new skill sets are required and it integrates in the network just like any other windows machine.
There's a reason why tablets still aren't common in enterprise. ipads and droids simply are not a viable solution for business.
Win8 tablets are. And not a little bit.
I know it wasn't your quote, but he specifically said "8 makes in roads where IT Admins have been struggling to manage with 3rd party apps", so I was expecting more of an explanation than "well it's another Windows machine". I haven't bothered with the developer preview; I'm going to sit and wait on the consumer preview coming out (very soon IIRC). I'd honestly like to know what sort of roads are being made for IT admins, considering I ended up just walking into a head IT admin job fresh out of college two months ago.
http://profile.yahoo.com/YMGC4D7Y2ZF6OTVBOHCT4DF2LA Jexhu
Windows system runs the world. This is coming from an
IT professional working for one of the world's largest public Transportation
the i'm a mac i a'm PC guess what PC won
that was an apple fail apple is still trying
http://profile.yahoo.com/QPCJQOEWWOPZQGKPEM3JGOI6HY Stan
Little correction, Linux runs the world. It's in routers you use at home and office, it runs most of the www sites, datacenters, banks, telcoms, it's in your smartTV, in all the Android devices (phones, tablets etc…), jukeboxes in pubs. It runs scientific labs and so on …
Windows runs just desktops and tbh it's not that good at it either. It's just popular. That's it
Taryn Ficklin
http://www.facebook.com/pleimer Paul Leimer
Let me make a minor correction: Unix runs the world, which happens to be the operating system Linux runs on and so does Mac OS X. It is used for everything you mentioned. Most significant is its dominance in the internet world like you said.
http://profile.yahoo.com/YMGC4D7Y2ZF6OTVBOHCT4DF2LA Jexhu
Windows system runs the world. This is coming from an
IT professional working for one of the world's largest public Transportation
the i'm a mac i a'm PC guess what PC won
that was an apple fail apple is still trying
Fast boot times and sand-boxed apps are perfect for the enterprise. The majority of vulnerbilities and stability problems are from poorly written programs. I think Windows 8 will be a huge boost to productivity in the enterprise. However I don't see many businesses migrating to WIndows 8 as they are in the middle of Windows 7 migration projects.
http://twitter.com/tabinnorway Terje A. Bergesen
Been running 8 (dev preview) for a while now. Apart from one annoying thing, irrelevant at the moment, Win8 is leaner, faster, meaner and less resource hungry than Win7. Win 8 is to Win 7 what Win 7 was to Vista. An improvement. I can run 8 on hardware that would not boot Vista, and that will run XP under protest only.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514097850 Florent Gjonbalaj
let me guess… you were in a starbucks wearing corduroy pants and a hipster sweater when you wrote this on your ipad.
http://twitter.com/Julzz Χαράλαμπος Pap
gahahahahahah coming from someone who lives in a fake country!
Daniël Westerbeek
Again, what is this guy doing here?
What is your point, dude? Are you trying to provoke something?
Neon Frank
Fake country? Wait….Greece?
http://twitter.com/Julzz Χαράλαμπος Pap
gahahahahahah coming from someone who lives in a fake country!
http://www.facebook.com/pleimer Paul Leimer
Personal assaults are the least effective way to argue. If you mean for anyone to listen to you, I suggest you take a debate class and learn to properly argue with facts and logic. Don't succumb to your ignorance, become an expert. Then talk
Scientific Bob
I don't know what you understand under 'IT community', but as a .NET and silverlight engineer, I see nothing but excitement.
I just went to Msft TechDays conference last week. Thousands of .NET engineers were standing in line for the sessions on WinRT. At one point, they had to stream the session to another room due to lack of seats.
Network administrators in turn, will LOVE win8 tablets as opposed to droids or idevices. Why? Because a win8 tablet is just another windows device to integrate into the network. To a network admin, a win8 tablet is no different then a laptop or desktop. It's part of the domain, it has active directory, etc etc etc etc.
Are you serious? Windows owns the end-user experience in the enterprise, except for shops that run high-concept / high design studios that depend on Apple programs. My goodness. You've heard of Windows Server, SQL Server, BI, VS, .net and a dozen other Microsoft technologies that power a large part of almost every fortune 500 company and beyond, no?
Until W8, MS simply has not had a touch friendly OS to market tablets effectively. Certainly like WP, they're at least a year late to the party, but W8 will be a success from a consumer stand point. And it will spur increased adoption on WP. On the later, don't look for the WP market share to approach iOS and Android anytime soon, but it will overtake RIM in the next few years, but Microsoft on solid ground in the smartphone wars.
Yes. Apple is on a roll, but with the right mix of marketing, 3rd party devices and competitive pricing on the ARM front to the Kindle and slumping Android devices, W8 should do extremely well, especially on the x86 side where someone want total functionality.
http://twitter.com/kazolar Yakov G
Ok, most of us are sitting in an office — how many of us have Apple PCs? Ok. how many of us have Microsoft PCs, Ok. Now everyone put your hands down. Clearly Microsoft is in trouble. — This is stupid click bating. Bulk of money is made in enterprise market, Apple is consumer centric and will always be. Tablets not withstanding, x86 is still king, and will be king for decades — yes decades to come. And x86 running Windows — not OSX. Apple can keep trying to "innovate", but the innovation from where I'm sitting feels like flailing, like the wii — that was really innovative. It sold a lot, then it stopped. PS3 — and 360 keep trudging along with controllers we've been using for decades. Yes they've expanded with the move and Kinect, but again — the main attraction is still the same dual analog stick controller — same like the mouse and keyboard is still the best way to use a computer. Keep writing obituaries for the PC, are you writing them on a tablet? If you are I'd be seriously shocked.
And how many of us in an office have PCs running XP? A lot more than what Microsoft would like, I'm sure. Windows 7 is shaping up to be the "next XP." I doubt enterprises will dive headfirst into Windows 8. iPad is making inroads into enterprises on the tablet front, so I think many enterprises will opt to stick with "what works" for the foreseeable future (i.e. Windows 7 on notebooks and expanded support for iPhone, iPad, and Android for smartphone and tablet access to e-mail and internal sites).
Mujeeb Rahman
This is not going to happen. I like Apple iPhone and iPad, I work in a large enetprise and is managing IT related resources. Atleast for the next four or five years its difficult to support iPad or iPhone for enterprise software. We support iPhone for making calls but last year we had added Windows Phone also into the series hoping to have Windows Phone 8 working with Windows 8 when we upgrade. Although on a personal note I like to use iPhone for personally its not economical to support iPhone or iPad in the enterprise.
Scientific Bob
"iPad is making inroads into enterprises on the tablet front"
This is simply not true.
I'm a software engineer, specialised in custom enterprise software.
The only ipads and iphones I see in the enterprise are owned by sales people. You know… the ones that like to have some bling-bling to show off when at meetings with customers.
Do you know what I see them use it for?
The iphone for making calls and the ipad for showing pictures.
And once they return to the office, they sit behind an XP/Vista/7 machine.
Meanwhile, the IT admins curse the sales management for buying ipads which they can't properly control.
When win8 (hybrid) tablets hit the market, the ipad will be instantly discarded as a business solution (not that it acts as a 'solution' for anything though).
Nobody expects a mass migration from 7 to 8 in the enterprise. This never happens. Enterprises typically are always one OS version behind. That's only normal – new releases still have a lot of things that will need patching. Whereas the OS from the previous cycle is very mature by then. I personally have never seen a company migrate to an OS without that OS allready having an SP1 released.
HOWEVER, I fully expect win8 tablets to flood the enterprise market from day 1.
http://kaizenity.blogspot.com/ FalKirk
"Ok, most of us are sitting in an office…"-Yakov G
This is where you go wrong. Most of us are NOT sitting in an office. Most of us are computing from home. Or from the road. Some of us are moving from place to place or room to room. The number of people who are NOT computing while sitting in an office far outnumbers those who are.
Microsoft's unassailable advantage was compatibiliy. If your hardware or your software wasn't compatible with Windows, it was niche, at best. But touch based phone and tablet apps are not compatible with mouse based desktop applications. With no hope of compatibility, the best the phone, tablet or desktop owner can hope for is consistency.
Mountain Lion advances the consistency between Apple's iOS and OS X products. We'll have to wait and see how well Windows' phones, tablets and desktops work together.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ALGUQOPSAWIBTJ5XBNHQXKBOVM Billy Kilmer
"The number of people who are NOT computing while sitting in an office far outnumbers those who are."
That's almost as funny as the lead-in to this article, "the PC is dead".
http://kaizenity.blogspot.com/ FalKirk
There are approximately 450,000 smart phones – all portable. There are 50 million tablets – all portable. There are 320 million notebook computers – all portable. There are some 80 million desktop computers – many of which are not in work environments.
If you have a source that shows that there are more people using computers in an office than elsewhere, then I reverse my position. Until then, I think its more than logical to infer that more computers are used outside a work environment than within.
divya R
Do you think people will use Apple iPad for doing work ? Some people who manages inventory or transportation may use it. But its foolish to even think that normal work will be done over iPad or thru a Mac.
http://kaizenity.blogspot.com/ FalKirk
"…its foolish to even think that normal work will be done over iPad or thru a Mac."-divya R
You're embarrassing yourself. There were 31.7 million tablets and 56.3 million notebooks sold last quarter. It's only a matter of time before tablet sales exceed notebook sales.
Source: http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2012/02/apple-holds-top-mobile-pc-share-due-to-dominant-tablet-sales/
And people are doing very real work on them. People like doctors and lawyers and CEOs, professional football teams and corporations like IBM and SAP.
Good luck living in the 90's. The tech world is moving on without you.
Occurred? I don't see it "occurred". Where is it? It may, possibly, occur, in the, near or more distant, future, but whatever software companies push for, the final word most likely will be of the buyers. And Win 8 despite the honey smeared on it may pretty well follow the fate of Vista.
Gerry Allen
A bit of perspective reveals that the Apple OS has always been a niche environment operating on a fringe hardware system. While it may make eye-catching headlines, the future of MS operating systems is quite secure. I suspect the folks propping up Apple stock are trying to re-cover their losses from AIG.
Sajeev Chentamarakshan
You are totally wrong. There is no point in comparing Mountain Lion with Windows. Windows has a net market share of 92% and you are trying to say that Mac has an advantage over Windows . Nice try !!!! . More importantly when it comes to enterprise I dont know any company using Mac in their office environment ? Does Apple use Mac ? You are saying iOS will leverage Mac sales. Thats a joke. The Windows 7 licences itself is more than 450 million. Mac and iOS devices doesnt even come near that number. Additionally almost all predictions ( Gartner, iSuppli, IDC) says iPhone will be distant third by 2015 after Android and Windows Phone. Where ever Windows Phone had started selling , signs show that they are doing good. Nokia Lumia alone had sold 1.3 million devices in only six markets that too in 6 weeks of time :-) so the picture is very clear !!!!
Dream lika a fanboy, but live like a normal boy !!!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514097850 Florent Gjonbalaj
speaking with figures that are verifiable through a simple web search is sooooo proper it just makes me happy. great post.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7QOBZ26TQDSDXR4AR4H7LTE2TI John
I agree. Also, if MS and Google can get a better relationship it will be over for Apple. I cant even imagine running a business with Apple products. Not only would you have to pay 3 times the cost but the amount of software choices suck. Open source is cool but its no where even close to the real thing.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7QOBZ26TQDSDXR4AR4H7LTE2TI John
I agree. Also, if MS and Google can get a better relationship it will be over for Apple. I cant even imagine running a business with Apple products. Not only would you have to pay 3 times the cost but the amount of software choices suck. Open source is cool but its no where even close to the real thing.
Paul Franks
You're delusional. The real question here is whether or not Mountain Lion's convoluted and increasingly complex UI stands a chance agains tthe completely rethought Windows. Who actually buys into this argument?
Given that every Mac owner I know has Windows 7 loaded on their computer and use Windows 7 almost exclusively on it, I can't imagine where you are coming from stating Windows is doomed. There are a huge number of vertical applications in use at businesses that will not run on OS X. They are not going to be re-written any time soon and this will virtually guarantee that Windows will remain the dominant OS for desktops / notebooks.
As far as the Windows 8 Metro interface, I expect most will use the legacy desktop option so I don't see the big deal there. Microsoft will bend to customer demand on this issue.
I am wondering at all the hate on Windows 8 (other than Metro) when it isn't out yet and most have probably only read about it. Gee, let's compare an early beta to shipping product…
http://profiles.google.com/ariemeth Edward Carmack
This is a fact that is so often overlooked. Just because Mac sales may be up, this doesn't mean windows sales are down. I don't know a single person with a mac that does not at leave have windows running in a vm. My office uses mostly mac books, but all except one are running windows 7. Microsoft is a software company not a hardware company.
leon scott
Guess what people, developers are less than 1 percent of the consumer pc market, so stop acting like people won't be interested….. It runs an enhanced windows 7 desktop also so don't be a little grump just because it has metro interface….
josifov Gorgi
Guess what, that 1% is the moving force of IT industry, without them you don't have a pc market
leon scott
And extreme tech, get your facts right, Windows 8 is slated for the 3rd-4th quarter of 2012
http://www.mrseb.co.uk Sebastian Anthony
'Second half of 2012′ doesn't contain the 3rd and 4th quarters…?
leon scott
yea but Apple is slated for the summer which isn't second half
http://www.mrseb.co.uk Sebastian Anthony
Well, two summer months out of three are second half…! (July and August).
This is a silly argument though :P
Hey Shut the Fuck up!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514097850 Florent Gjonbalaj
the summer is absolutely, not even arguably, no doubt about it second half of the year.
let me see… jan-1, feb-2, mar-3, apr-4, may-5, jun-6… then the rest are 7-12…
summer starts in late june… the 6th month out of 12 months in a year…
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514097850 Florent Gjonbalaj
someone find leon scott and punch him in the forehead with super bowl rings on.
Ezekiel Siegrist
PC won't die until something equally flexible and useful comes out, which won't happen with tablets or phones or any of that crap…and don't try to say oh you can plug a keyboard and mouse into your tablet or phone…cause guess what…then it's a PC…with phone capabilities….just cause it's portable doesn't make it any less a PC…pc is personal computer and i hate to break it to you…my phone has a processor, ram, solid state memory, and an OS….it's a PC same for tablets….
http://profiles.google.com/ariemeth Edward Carmack
Careful, you seem to be implying then that macs are pcs as well and I know many people that will argue till they are blue that macs are not pcs. Thanks to the apple advertising that tied the term pc to windows and somehow linux.
Ezekiel Siegrist
mac desktops are PC's…now IOS on the other hand is not a pc in my book…processor, ram, storage…all that is there but the OS on them has restricted it to be what it is…a smartphone…compared to androids flexibility it just isn't useful to me. these are entirely my opinions so take it or leave it…i'm sure there are those that will disagree but hey…whatever works for you…
Ezekiel Siegrist
PC won't die until something equally flexible and useful comes out, which won't happen with tablets or phones or any of that crap…and don't try to say oh you can plug a keyboard and mouse into your tablet or phone…cause guess what…then it's a PC…with phone capabilities….just cause it's portable doesn't make it any less a PC…pc is personal computer and i hate to break it to you…my phone has a processor, ram, solid state memory, and an OS….it's a PC same for tablets….
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1223563048 Angel Ham
Am I the only one noticing that after Vista, Windows is becoming faster and less resource hungry whereas OSX has started to become bloated and demaning way more just to run at the same speed? Makes me wonder if we'll see an OSX Vista edition in a couple of years.
Gernot Kogler
Not here. Each new version of OSX (Tiger -> Leopard -> Snow Leopard -> Lion) made my Macbook Pro (late 2008) faster. And it's way faster than Windows7 on this machine (with Bootcamp).
This seems like a minor update in reaction to Windows 8. Ther real question is will Apple stand a chance with the onslaught which is going to happen with Windows 8 and Android ICS tablets? This is more of a case of mountain pussy cat than lion.
David Trimble
I'm really sick of this Mac fan boy bs. We all know, you love Macs. Stop posting such bias crap.
This article reeks of apple Homos and bias faggotery
All you guys are gay
http://twitter.com/innovatorfred Fred Espina
How come they didn't mention the xbox kinect, it sold faster then iPad and iPhone.
http://twitter.com/innovatorfred Fred Espina
How come they didn't mention the xbox kinect, it sold faster then iPad and iPhone.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514097850 Florent Gjonbalaj
in fact, it holds a world record!
Vincent Lalande-Bériault
Tired of Apple biased articles of ExtremeTech. Clearly, nobody at ET has friends working as network/server administrators in a real, big company… sigh.
Vincent Lalande-Bériault
Tired of Apple biased articles of ExtremeTech. Clearly, nobody at ET has friends working as network/server administrators in a real, big company… sigh.
Jeremy Collake
As always, I still disagree with the premise that the PC is so suddenly 'dead'. NO, the PC remains the most efficient means to produce *any* sort of output. Even this very comment. For as long as it remains the most efficient method of production of any type, it will be around.
Dan Goldberg
Mountain Lion is still the same old ugly operating system they have had in the last ten years. They just add a couple of apps to it and call it new. It is like the iPhone, same old boring operating system.
At least Microsoft reinvents it from the ground up and looks/works better than a Mac. All for a third of the price!
Gernot Kogler
Do you have any hands on experience with OSX? I doubt it.
http://twitter.com/tabinnorway Terje A. Bergesen
Funny article. Without Windows there is no iCloud. The entire backbone of the iExperience is tied to Windows. OSX will continue to be as relevant as it has always been, in tiny little niches.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514097850 Florent Gjonbalaj
in other words, starbucks coffee shops.
http://twitter.com/Julzz Χαράλαμπος Pap
if you dont know, Windows is loosing marketshare being not needed as a Must-live-with-OS. i have been using the apple echo-system for 3 years and prefer this way! even in the business world its more business orientated than windows! its even has Exchange built in the OS and Microsoft doesn't have it on theres and its a Microsoft product hahaha!
http://twitter.com/Julzz Χαράλαμπος Pap
if you dont know, Windows is loosing marketshare being not needed as a Must-live-with-OS. i have been using the apple echo-system for 3 years and prefer this way! even in the business world its more business orientated than windows! its even has Exchange built in the OS and Microsoft doesn't have it on theres and its a Microsoft product hahaha!
Scientific Bob
"in the business world its more business orientated than windows!"
You're an idiot. Or just really really ignorant.
Neon Frank
I believe he is the Greek Economic minister…so it makes sense, all of it
mori bund
Let's see how well win8 will sell, before you herald the dead of the PC (once again).
One might think you IT-bloggers living in your "ivory towers" and dreaming of the cloud have forgotten that most people on this planet don't have the luxury to be connected to the cloud 24/7. (And some might even not care about the cloud at all.)
Most people just want a plain old PC operating system.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk Sebastian Anthony
Yep, and I guess they can stick with Windows 7.
I'm actually not a big proponent of everything-in-the-cloud. I'm more a fan of 'one device and carrying all of your data with you'.
It's important to note that these stories might not necessarily align with my own point of view :)
Wow.. OSX Mountain Lion runs the world, Windows 8 doesn't have the chance.
are you such delusional? Is this typical apple fan boy, the world revolve around him? I've never seen more than 3 people around me using OSX, here. Most of them using Windows to do daily task.
http://society50.com wmac
Sebastian Antony has written a shockingly disappointing shallow article. I couldn't react except nodding my head.
Perhaps he wants to harvest troll comments. In that case it is not a good sign for a website that was supposed to be a professional on-biased one.
Neon Frank
No, SB is not a fanboy he just loves fanning the flames
Comparing apples and windows?
Win8 on PCs, notebooks, ultras, pads or slates or whatever, phones. Any further comment required?
http://twitter.com/Julzz Χαράλαμπος Pap
while apple just has osx and iOS which works……………
http://society50.com wmac
On just 5% of the computers! in a few countries in the world.
Neon Frank
Yes, and what's really cool is I can use whatever hardware I want to use…wait….that's not Apple
Okay I gave you guys two page clicks . Stopped reading after "The PC is dead "
The PC is never dead Tablets and phones are still Personal Computers
It is tragic that humanity entered the technological age saddled and thus burdened with Microsoft.
Neon Frank
…and Apple, don't forget the Evil Empire.
Unless you mean we all should be using Linux, I would if the software I use everyday runs on it. (Graphic programs don't run with WINE)
In reference to the article:
I can't wait to do all my business and graphic work on a tablet or smartphone (my eyes rolling and slowly shaking my head) :P People who need to do, you know, work at work, as opposed to hanging out at Starbulls will still be buying PCs and some Macs … well, that is unless THOSE rumours that Apple will phase out Macs are true…
UNIX would have been the best realistic alternative, in the begining. Because of DOS, a cheap ripoff of UNIX, I believe humanity is 15 years behind in computing, and this drag will continue into the near future.
Neon Frank
Hmmm…so if there never was DOS, never was Microsoft, and Apple…computers using UNIX and used basically for businesses would have been MORE advanced then they are today?
Steve Sadler
Hm, CP/M was pretty much modeled after RT-11, not UNIX. MSDOS was purchased from Seattle Computer Products. They'd developed an OS pretty much based upon CP/M, they called it QDOS. It had the same API as CP/M to make it easy to port CP/M programs.
You are correct. It can be debated that CP/M was modeled
after UNIX. My point is that information belongs to no one, and that owning it
(withholding it) only slows advancement. At least we have two negative forces
at work, Apple and Microsoft, instead of one. Apple innovates while Microsoft
assimilates. Had Microsoft not purchased 150 million of Apple stock back in
1997, and Apple had gone away, imagine how retarded computing would be now. I
suspect Gates and Jobs realized this. As an aside, I feel, having used both OS Lion and Win 7,
Apple has the superior operating system, regardless of market share.
Neon Frank
Ahh, yes Apple…clever leading in with UNIX
Imagine a would without Microsoft…everything having to do with computers must to be bought from Apple, only one computer, one OS, one Apple
No thank you, I like the freedom Microsoft gives me, I don't wish to be a drone!
Apple's 1984 ad was a great piece of classic propaganda in tune with all the other great pieces of propaganda the very thing it warns against it is.
I'm not trying to be cleaver. There seems to be a lot of emotion in the majority of statements on this thread. The reply was directed at Steve Sadler, and as an aside I gave a subjective opinion. If I had to choose between Windows most current OS vs. Apples, I like Apples. That does not mean Apple is great.
josifov Gorgi
If the PC is dead, than say it software development is dead too, software can't be developed on iToys or Tablets or else. The most productive way of developing software is the PC, a large monitor, nice keyboard, a mouse maybe laptop, but desktop is preferred because you can have more power than the laptop with the same configuration due to the cooling system.
And if the software development is dead than back to the stone age, baby
Gernot Kogler
I'm a developer (> 20 years) and I tell you: The most productive way of developing software is the Mac. The future is the Web, and the most advanced tools and engines for the web work best with unix (and OSX, since it's unix).
I have been developing on and for Windows since Window 3.1, but I never look back since I switched to OSX.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6JXCPS7SULDTTZYPCGSVP67RQM Dave K
Oy.. will someone please shoot the all the Apple fan boys?
First, the "PC".. personal computer… is not dead. It's just taking another form. The desktop computer isn't even dead as some have predicted. As long as you can stuff more bits into volatility and not non-volatile memory… and as long as that increased memory needs space to occupy… you'll always have different form factors that trade on things like portability, expandability and power.
Secondly, Apple doesn't have "the upper hand". If anything, MS and Apple are about tied. The author – let's call him "Captain Fanboy from Planet Apple Core" – conveniently leave out that fact that Apple's desktop computer market penetration barely registers in any significant way, it's laptop penetration consists primary of hipster fanboys who have relatively little relevance in the business world and Apple has absolutely NO gaming platform – let alone a successful one with deep market penetration – to speak of.All the things matter because… no matter how many devices Apple makes iOS or MacOS available, few people are going to give up the thousands (and millions and billions) of dollars in software, games, peripherals and data just because Apple decides to put out another shiny piece of fanboy and hipster iBling. Assuming a particular application Apple makes is successful, those people will either wait till MS integrates a competing component in their next OS development cycle or download and install it as a separate competing application to whatever device they need it on (God bless open platforms, huh?)As an article author myself, if I've learned anything it's that when someone starts an article with something as asinine and incendiary as "The PC is dead." it's almost universal that it's because they wrote a crap-ass article and want to get increase their visitor eyeballs.Good to see my theory still stands.
bill bane
Mr. Anthony,
Interesting article, but I think you miss some vital points. Most simply, Microsoft has a much more powerful "edge" than "differentiation." You forget about backwards compatibility.
MS has always been loyal to its user base in terms of their old apps and data formats than has Apple. MS has always dragged along old code even though this pretty obviously caused interface and "bloat" and performance problems. Mr. Jobs, bless his heart, just said screw you, for example with the Apple II to Mac transition, in Apple's persistent "big brother" notions.
And there is more.
Apple's Mac, when it was introduced, was way better in 100 ways than the MS offering. How the heck did MS end up being so dominate?? …..By being loyal to old users and continually improving MS created business and product improvement process that almost sunk Apple. (Check the data.) Through necessity or desperation (my view) or brilliance (fanboy view), Apple retreated from the personal computer segment into the cheap digital music segment. Once into this relatively unoccupied segment (shame on Sony, right?), Apple expanded its segment focus back toward PC's, where we now find them again king of a hill…. like they were with the Mac!
See how MS trumped the Mac above? Gonna happen to Apple again. Sorry.
Making matters even worst for Apple, they must triumph over not just MS this time. Couple of other (known) carnivore out there: Google/Chrome/Android and probably Amazon.
Not this year, not next, but by 2015 at the latest, lots of "Where Apple went wrong articles." Start building up your files. (BTW, sell the stock while you can.)
Bill Bane
PS. Did I hear Windows 8 will have "free Outlook"? :)
Anytime someone uses the term "Apple fanboy" they've lost any chance at a sensible debate. They just show themselves to be:
1) Threatened
2) Insecure
3) Jealous
What are people who use Windows called? Nothing. Us "Apple Fanboys" ( of which I proudly align myself with ) are not threatened, insecure or jealous. I was once a tech who worked on PC's exclusively. I called The Other Side "fanboys" myself.
Until I actually started using a Mac that is.
Dave K can whine all he wants to but, he never makes a point about what innovations Microsoft has made in the past few years.
Let's talk about them shall we?
– Zune (insert snicker here) Especially the Brown Zune which look liked something Ballmer left on his office floor after a tirade.
– Windows ME and Windows Vista ( go on, try and defend them )
– Mobile devices using Windows. I know of NOBODY who uses one. It's either Android or IOS.
– Tablet PC's. Gone like Dodo birds.
– Speech Recognition in Windows XP
– Windows LIve Spaces
– Passport
– Ultimate TV
– I didn't mention "Bob" although, maybe I just did!
Pout and whine all you'd like Dave but, name ONE Apple failure. Even going so far back as Newton, it was still waaaay ahead of the game.
Yup, if success after resounding success by Apple make me a "fanboy" then hey, I'll wear the hat!
Still trying to come up with a name for the idiots that buy a PC at BestBuy and then drop it off to GeekSquad so they can fix it every few months. Elderly people get screwed by PC's on a daily basis because of the unending spyware/malware/trojans. My aunt, against my advice, bought a desktop PC at BestBuy. I went to visit her and she was mad that she bought it. Here is was 2 months old and it was a dead duck basically. I booted it up and watched as endless pop-ups and same flooded the screen. It blew me away how bad it was. Sure, give me a few hours and I could have it clean again but, she'd be in the same boat a few months down the road.
She bought a MacBook and is now enjoying things the way they should be. She was literally in tears at how easy it was and more importantly, how she wasn't being bombarded by threats all the time.
Apple's 4th Quarter revenue was $46 BILLION!
Yes sir Dave, your "theory" is spot on. (not)
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6JXCPS7SULDTTZYPCGSVP67RQM Dave K
QUOTE: "Anytime someone uses the term 'Apple fanboy' they've lost any chance at a sensible debate. They just show themselves to be: 1) Threatened 2) Insecure 3) Jealous"
That's funny because those are the same reasons I believe people become Apple fanboys and girls in the first place. Nice try.
QUOTE: "Us "Apple Fanboys" ( of which I proudly align myself with ) are not threatened, insecure or jealous."
Denial is a river in Egypt, dude.
QUOTE: "What are people who use Windows called? Nothing."
Right. Because people who tend toward Windows usage realize that Windows and the computer they're using are JUST TOOLS. They'd no more want to be "drill-boys" or "wrench-girls" because they're generally intelligent enough to know better than to get emotionally sucked in and attached by hyped marketing and culture jamming corporate propaganda.
That said, as a professional web developer and computer user for the last 30 years, I've personally learned that every OS has it's advantages/disadvantages and I use the big three (Windows/MacOS/Linux) on a regular basis for various reasons. I like them all and worship none.
QUOTE: "Let's talk about them shall we? …name ONE Apple failure."
– Apple Newton
– Apple Lisa
– Apple Pippin
– Mac TV
– iPod U2 Special Edition
– 20th Anniversary Mac
– Mac Portable
– Apple QuickTake
– eWorld
– G4 Cube
– Apple III
… Shall I go on?
QUOTE: "Yup, if success after resounding success by Apple make me a "fanboy" then hey, I'll wear the hat!"
You mean dunce cap, don't you? This is what I mean. The arrogant jerks who come into a tech forum to defend their "holy grail" of a product and company yet have no idea about that company. It's all based on some emotional attachment that one company brainwashed them into.
The mere fact that you challenged me to name failed Apple products (and were met with about a dozen) proves that you are the epitome and archetypical deluded and irrational Apple eater. You eat up the Apple PR crap because… why? You think it makes you a better/popular/more knowledgeable/more hip/holy-than-thou person when all you've done is buy into someone else's idea of a culture and now feel threatened when someone shines a light on it's flaw. That's why you're an Apple eater fan-boy and not an Apple consumer like myself and most sane people. Instead of being a regular consumer… you're a glutton.
QUOTE: "Here is was 2 months old and it was a dead duck basically."
So… you're blaming x86's and Windows because some douche bags who have nothing to do with building the systems or developing Windows go out of their way to commit criminal acts and your aunt is too ignorant of technology to deal with it?
Right. Read irrational and deluded above.
And, for the record, what exactly IS MacOS's system failure/error icon these days? It used to be a little bomb and a sad computer face. Or, did Apple perfect their systems to a point where they no longer need one? LOL
QUOTE: "She was literally in tears…"
You aunt was "literally in tears" over a computer? Now I see where you get your emotional attachment to metal and plastic. Must be a family trait.
You reminds me of a character in an XKCD comic: http://xkcd.com/725/
QUOTE: "Apple's 4th Quarter revenue was $46 BILLION! "
Yeah, and? On Friday IBM gained $.40 a share while Apple lost $.09. Who cares? They still aren't taken serious as a computing device by anyone other than hipsters with low self-esteem. And they still only have single digit market penetration in the computing market – which is, after all, what this article and thread are about. Look! Pretty shiny thing!
Try and stay focused, Randy.
Moreover, what happens when someone (probably HTC or Samsung) comes along – and they will – and dethrones Apple as the consumer electronics leader?
I imagine there will be a lot of money to be made as a therapist counseling all those suicidal Apple eaters and fanboys.
QUOTE: "Yes sir Dave, your "theory" is spot on. (not)"
Yes… yes it is. And, as a culture jamming hipster fanboy I would think you'd have known that following a statement was "not" went out in the '90s. Guess that why you worship Apple so much. Must need something to fill the gap in your cool.
-David K
Awesome dude!!
Were it not for the fact that you wanted your aunt's experience to be negative you could have recommended that she didn't run with full admin rights. Shame on you
BTW if you takes you a couple of hours to get rid of pop ups then I agree that you are better off sticking to a MAC… or crayons.
http://profile.yahoo.com/6JBDL7X567KRKRWJTO5D6Q3LIQ Kenn & Charlene
Sun Microsystems tried this 30 years ago. Saying that everything would be on the Mainframe. BUT, The Cloud died when the Justice Dept took down Megaupload. Now anyone can claim the there is a copyright file and the Justice Dept will take down the whole service overnight.
Gosh, this article is terrible… "The PC is dead"? really? last time I check more than 90% of all business in the world still use the PC, as imaged by IBM, for their daily operations, That is a LOT of PCs dude… whats funny is that I have a friend that said: "Xbox 360 is an obsolete console" about 4 years ago, when the PS3 was gaining momentum… irnocially, X360 is in top of the the gaming market today…"Apple has the upper hand" …you write like a high school student… " Apple is trying to get iOS users to pony up for a Mac laptop, Apple TV, and eventually an Apple iTV"
guess what: There are more Laptop pcs than macs… meaning microsoft is already has the "Upper hand" on that type of mobile market. There are more Xbox 360s that iTVs.. meaning that… they have the upper hand with more consoles hooked to TVs, meaning the entire home entrainment domain… not to mention bing and the other live services apple dosent have…. Windows phone is currently number 4 in the mobile market…and with black berry in constant decay… and with windows 8 ecosystem around the corner, and the current momentum of Nokia and their Lumia series… They will soon own a solid number 3 position…. you dont have to be number one on something to make money on it… which is the end goal… MS will never beat Apple in mobile devices, but they can be on the game… in the same way Apple will never beat MS on their productivity/PC market… Apple will never have an Xbox 360, will never have bing, will never have office…
Windows 8 vs. Mountain Lion: Does Microsoft stand a chance? YES, they are winning already….
http://pishawjustpishaw.blogspot.com/ pishaw
"The Macintosh is so superior in form and function that in two years everyone will have one, an nobody will even remember IBM made a computer." Oh, wait. That's when The PC Was Dead in 1984.
"In two years, we will all have 'dumb terminals', and all data storage will be through the internet." Oh, wait. That's when The PC Was Dead in 1998.
"With devices like the Chromebook, there will no longer be a need for 'home computers'." Oh, wait. That's when The PC Was Dead in 2005.
Sebastian, they should fire your dumb a$$ for even thinking like that. You should have fewer opinions.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dorian-Black/606651887 Dorian Black
Is this article seriously asking this question?
The Windows install base is 9 times that of OS X's. Of course Windows 8 will beat Mountain Lion, probably just on upgrades alone. The real question to be asked here is will Mountain Lion's sales make a dent in the Windows market this year? I think that's a much more important thing to consider because Apple have never really shifted past that 10% of the Desktop/PC market even with multiple updates to their OS, their iOS devices and a lot of marketing. Even the Steam partnership didn't make a difference. It'll be interesting to see how things shape up in a year from now.
MS has 90% of the market and Apple has 5%. Gee, I sure hope MS makes it out alive!
What a load of horsesh*t this article is!
The metro view is the default just to show "live tiles"? Come on. If the new Windows 8 is so smart why doesn't it default to the correct view? If there is a keyboard connection present, default to the traditional desktop view, if there is no keyboard present default to the metro view. It seems an extreme waste of time to require millions of users to click through to the desktop view from the metro view which is, apparently, the "always-on default".
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I think everyone is getting two excited about 2 products that apple has. Only two products, and since there prices are always 2 to 3 times higher than windows, apple will always remain in second place as far as users go. They have 3 great products, iphone, ipad and the mp3 player that started it all, but that is it. As far as getting mass users to buy into there T.V. device, that wont happen. Yes there will be a lot of news stories praising the T.V. from apple, but so far it has been a disaster. This T.V. thing has been on the market for some time, and not even apple really cared about it, until they realized that Google was coming out with something.
And i bet history repeats itself, now with Steve Jobs gone, how long will it be, before they are close to going out of business again? What Apple really needs to do if try and bring back the Original guy that started it all, no not Steve Jobs, he was just a glorified manager, just like Walt Disney. Jobs seems to have been given all the credit when, really all the credit belong to Steve Wozniak.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates pretty much are the same, both didn't do anything to get there great success. Steve Jobs rode on Steve Wozniak coat tails and Bill Gates just borrowed Windows from IBM.
I'm certain that Wozniak would thank you for acknowledging his participation in the development of the iPod, iPad and iPhone.
http://twitter.com/Seanmyr Sean Meyer
Ok, I don't understand first of all where the author is thinking that if Windows 8 doesn't make it on tables and other mobile devices that Microsoft is doomed. I just don't see it. He a freakin' idiot.
I personally have had for the last two years both a Windows PC (running Vista Ultimate by the way) and a macbook pro. I can't stand the macbook. The OS is crap. The way things are done on it. I got the macbook as part of my tuition for the school I was attending and I was pretty excited to get it. However after a couple of months of using it almost to the exclusion of my Windows PC I got to the point where I couldn't wait to finish my schoolwork so that I could get back to my Windows OS. Yes, even Vista is so much better than that crap of an OS that Apple puts out.
By the way, yes you can game in Windows Vista. I have Vista since the very first day it was released and I haven't had one single problem with it. Not in general and most especially not in any of the games I play and I really like to play my games. So I don't see where other people keep putting it down. My PC is my job. I'm on it every day for at least 10 to 12 hours if not more.
Windows 8 will have a ton of people like me that will buy it and upgrade to it and will most likely love it as our desktop OS. I seriously doubt that if Windows doesn't make it on the tablet scene that Microsoft is doomed.
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You lost all credibility when you said that you "liked Windows Vista". If you said you liked WIndows 7, I could accept that.
Vista has been very reliable / stable for me as well since day of purchase. No driver problems for any devices I connected. I don't doubt some had problems with the tightened standards for drivers; however, no problem for me on several Vista machines that have now supplied years of reliable, trouble-free service while allowing the plethora of peripherals to work fine.
I'm tired of being Microsoft's lab rat! They keep introducing systems that deeply flawed and we continue to buy them and put up with the 2 to 3 years it takes to get them straightened out. Microsoft knows this! The introduced Vista knowing that hardly any suppliers had working drivers available for the Vista Platform. So we couldn't use printers, modems, scanners, or anything else that made our computers a work center. The problem here is these miscreants knew full well that there were major problems, but went ahead with the introduction anyway – to heck with the customer! To heck with Microsoft. Now Microsoft has mobile operating systems and for years they
have had interchangeable programs but now none of the old programs or apps will work with either Mobile 6.5 or Mobile 7. You suck Microsoft!
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The last sentence is done by almost all corporate companies. Google and Apple are also suckers who suck without even telling you that you are sucking !!!
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PCs are dead! Windows is dead!
Microsoft is dead! Big news, never before heard!
If these guys were deer hunters, they'd go out into the woods, pick a stationary target, and start shooting. Eventually, a deer might wander into the line of fire and they would actually take home some venison. If they keep repeating these tired old predictions, the odds are pretty good that they will eventually come true and they will be hailed as geniuses. The one hit will wipe out all memory of the countless misses that went before. Cheap glory.
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For Microsoft to win, they have to start focusing on user experience. Take iOS. If it is processing tasks and you touch the screen, everything comes to a halt and focuses on your touch. I've seen Windows folks call this a bad thing, saying iOS can't multitask, which only proved how out of touch they are with customers. It is a good thing because the device is always responsive to what customers want to do, and not using up resources scanning for viruses or backing itself up, or whatever else someone in Redmond thinks their device should be doing.
The best user experience will win. Nothing else will matter.
what a biased analysis, do you forget that MS has huge enterprise following compared to non of apple. Windows 8 would run a shell like windows 7 like an app using full performance of windows 8 hardware.
http://twitter.com/Shark_Duck Mark Williams
Does Microsoft stand a chance?"…give me a break
http://profiles.google.com/mlewus Mark Lewus
All of this talk about OS X swamping Microsoft has me almost laughing out loud. The PC business is driven by Enterprise, not consumer. The margins and associated high prices of the Macs have long kept them out of everything except the "art" markets, and that is not changing.
People who need to get things done will still need a real computer, mobile or otherwise, with a real operating system, a real keyboard, lots of storage. Maybe eventually companies will trust all of their data to "the cloud", but ONE big data loss or break-in could set that back years.
iOS will never be an enterprise operating system, as it is designed for consumption, not production. OS X could have been, but I think history will show that Snow Leopard was as good as it ever got. Ever since then, Apple just keeps trying to make OS X be iOS. Facebook on my Mac? Great! At work? Not so much.
http://www.facebook.com/pleimer Paul Leimer
The new OS X's do provide more consumer oriented stuff, but they also provide enterprise oriented things. Below the sleek OS X is the powerful Unix system, if you don't remember. The computer is able to day ANYTHING you want it to, with the power and the efficiency of unix, something microsoft is trying to catch up to.
Akash Kalghatgi
many pundits n those silly 6th senses of bloggers say that w8 will win over apple
how is this possible for them to say that if once again apple falls down before msft as it did a decade ago, it wont go further any more
its impossible, it cant happen that w8 wil evr win, its so silly n not so advanced as osx!!!
http://profile.yahoo.com/GCB53Z6HS4J67EGBMMPYYJMCRE suman
you motherfucker are you a apple fan. why don't you know that no one can beat Microsoft in terms of softwares and innovation, apple had only got excellance in hardwarees only. they are fucking shit and don't have much skills and innovative idea to make a software which can even compete microsoft' s windows 7 or windows 8 nor office suite and not even xbox 360 and Kinect. you fucking Ms hater.
Shreyash Nigam
get your facts right you idiot apple basically taught microsoft how to create a software. 90% of the features that you will see in your win8 were in mac os since the release of tiger
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The old battle. It's funny, but I run a PC and a Mac on my desk, switching between them with a KVM switch. Macs are good at some things; Garageband, Adobe products, images, music and crap at others; the OS, Safari and the price. Microsoft have produced ridiculously non-intuitive software over the years, but it's getting much better – Windows 7 is a cracking product and I have a suspicion 8 will be pretty good too.
I'm glad the iPad has been so successful, it's about time someone produced a decent tablet, but it's not terribly useful and the restrictions on available ports and YouTube for God's sake make it next to useless for me.
I reckon we will all carry on buying what we want based on what we do; desktops in the office tablets and laptops for the travellers.
Apple always and will be for toy game player. Apple is like a blank blonde chick with no brain. I have tasted both technologies in my days -1982. Apple is fun to play with. PC is fun to work with. Apple is never for serious. Apple was born to be apple and it will stay that way and will be rotten. PC is for serious. PC was born to be PC and it will stay that way and will be there when the world needed it the most! WAS YAHOO, GOOGLE, BINGO, TO NAME A FEW, USES APPLE TO RUN THEIR SERVER? I don't think so. PC is for the serious – the business people. What is inside Apple – you've guessed it – INTEL Inside! Apple is a TOY and PC is a TANK.
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Windows 8 doesn't signal in a "post P.C.-era", au contraire, it conserves the "old" and combines it with the new, now connected via the cloud (Microsoft SkyDrive) while Apple
is the one clinging to its old O.S.
Microsoft INVENTED the tablet P.C., Apple just popularized it by learning from Microsoft's mistakes, Windows 8 is "not a tablet-clone", the first tablet had Windows XP on it.
Stop saying the P.C. is doomed (IT'S NOT), and Microsoft has innovated more than Apple,
but we Microsoft Fanboys don't piss our pants everytime Microsoft adds hundreds of new
features to our P.C.'s, while Apple Fanboys do it for 1 little innovation that is dwarfed by Microsoft's.
Microsoft is moving into "the Cloud Era", and so is Apple, but this is mostly powered by x86 P.C.'s, not by Macintoshes. Tablets were INVENTED by Microsoft as an EXTENTION of the traditional-P.C., not some "imagined death" of it, and smart-phones may be multi-functional, but they won't replace the P.C. anytime soon.
Microsoft innovates, Google innovates, Apple simply aqciures wisdom from M.S. and Google's mistakes and tries to claim it as their's, look at Apple Maps, iPhones, iPads and most of your Macintosh. I've used a Macintosh at my old-office, and P.C.'s have always been, and always will be better. Vista was innovative, but people were shocked by all those new features so they killed it, Windows 7 is Vista's zombie with XP's old-features back, and Microsoft created the Windows Live Essentials suite, which are now back included in Windows 8, Windows 8 is the ultimate Windows, it combines "the Traditional-Windows", Windows Phone, Xbox and all of Microsoft's services into one.
While Apple is inefficiently devided, and expensive, it's "a brand", nothing more, Microsoft is an ecosystem.
What a pile of Apple soaked jizz.


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Nevada Democratic Reps. Shelly Berkley and Dina Titus were among those who had expressed support for Miller's effort — in part because it initially included provisions to protect construction workers — but ultimately voted against the amended bill.
Titus said in a recent interview that the legislation should have focused only on coal mining.
"If the bill was not as far-reaching, it would have had a better chance," she said.
Berkley did not respond to requests for comment.
Titus received $21,000 in campaign contributions from mining interests during the 2010 cycle, and Berkeley received $22,000.
Just before the House voted last December, the Chamber of Commerce designated the bill as a "key vote," a signal that it could be used to help determine which candidates to support or oppose in upcoming elections.
The bill failed to win the two-thirds majority necessary to pass in the House during the hectic lame-duck session.
The Obama administration's mine safety chief, Joseph Main, said that despite the legislative failure, his division launched its own surprise-inspection initiatives, issued unprecedented shutdown orders and obtained funds for increased personnel to help reduce the backlog at the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, which considers appeals from his division.


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LINCOLN, Neb. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Nebraska Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) today warned residents to be aware of potential health and safety risks when returning home as the floodwaters recede.
"People are anxious to get on with their lives after a flood," said Federal Coordinating Officer Stephen R. Thompson, FEMA's top official for the Nebraska recovery, "but if you had floodwater in your home, there are certain cautions you should take when beginning the recovery process."
Potential health/safety hazards after a disaster include carbon monoxide poisoning from generators used to power homes or clean-up equipment; electrocution from stepping into water charged by live electric wires; infections to cuts or scrapes that come into contact with surfaces contaminated by floodwater; chemical hazards from spills or storage tank breaks, respiratory and heat-related illnesses; and the worsening of chronic illness from overexertion.
NEMA's Web site, http://www.nema.ne.gov/ offers important information for flood survivors, including links to resources from FEMA, the Center for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human Services, and other agencies.
"Flooding Resources for Nebraska Citizens" includes:
/hazard/flood/fl_after.shtm – is a link to FEMA-recommended steps that should be taken immediately after a flood.
/hazard/flood/coping.shtm – takes browsers to a multi-faceted FEMA Web page that contains detailed information on cleaning and salvaging household items.
http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/floods/after.asp#cleanup – is a site maintained by the Center for Disease Control with helpful information on health/safety concerns that can result following a flood.
http://www.dhhs.ne.gov/newsroom/features/SevereStorms/#News – provides a wealth of information, including a PDF download with detailed storm/flooding recovery information from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.
FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.


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Jan III Sobieski's entry into Cracow for coronation
Elected king in May 1674 in the atmosphere of general enthusiasm, Grand Hetman Jan Sobieski had to wait for his solemn coronation in the Cracow cathedral. Put off for a long time, the ceremony took place no sooner than on 2 February 1676 in the presence of Primate Olszowski, Archbishop of Lviv Wojciech Koryciński, a few bishops and numerous senators. The proper coronation of Jan Sobieski and Marie Casimire was preceded by the king's grand entry into Cracow on 30 January.
According to eye-witness accounts the city honoured Sobieski, compared to Bolesław the Brave, by raising welcoming gates which praised his numerous victories, above all the victorious Battle of Chocim. The coronation vehicle was an open carriage upholstered with crimson velour, trimmed with gold and padded with white satin. As reported by a contemporary witness, the monarch was dressed in "a blue sable-lined overcoat interwoven with gold and silver, crimson lined żupan interwoven with gold, diamond buttons and a clasp of large diamonds as well as a huge ruby unseen elsewhere in Europe. His calpack with a diamond bow had three pearls of immense size and three heron feathers attached". Sobieski was riding "a gorgeous grey horse in a blue cloth of gold" with diamond trappings.
With the coronation in mind, the outstanding Dutch printmaker Romeyn de Hooghe (1645–1708) made in 1675 (i.e. before the ceremony) an impressive etching depicting the entry of Jan III. The composition, etched according to a drawing by Francesco Gratta the Younger, is of symbolic character and has little in common with reality. It represents a triumphal march all'antica of a victorious leader, returning from a battlefield and passing through a triumphal arch (the Temple of Virtue) on his way to the Wawel Castle. In the centre Sobieski on horseback underneath a canopy, dressed like a Roman emperor, is leading the victorious army with the captured prisoners of war, spoils and trophies. The canopy is held by four Virtues: Justice, Prudence, Sedateness and Vigilance. The leader is greeted by personifications of Poland and Lithuania. The foreground is filled with numerous allegoric figures, inter alia Generosity, Benevolence and Merriment.
Romeyn de Hooghe copied the composition, also known as The Apotheosis of Jan III with no major changes in another reduced printed version published in ca. 1700 by Pieter Boudewyn van der Aa in Leyden. The etching, in the collection of the National Library, bears a different title in the foreground cartouche, namely: Triomphe de Jean III Sobieski Roi de Pologne (…) and the signatures of both the printmaker, the author of the concept and the publisher's address. The two etchings represent high artistic quality, though their value as documents remains problematic.
Romeyn de Hooghe, based on a drawing by Francesco Gratta the Younger: Jan III Sobieski's entry into Cracow for coronation, etching, ca. 1700 (small version).
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On Sunday, morning just after 8 A.M., Kentucky State Police Post 3 Trooper Lonnie Hodges responded to the area of the 44 mile point on I 65 at Barren/Edmonson County line. The call was in regards to a non injury collision. The driver, Tony Farris (51) of Nashville, Tennessee was traveling North on I 65 in the emergency lane when he struck the guardrail.
Mr. Farris was taken into custody and was charged with DUI 1st Agg., Possession of Alcohol Container in Motor Vehicle, No Seatbelt, and No Insurance. Mr. Farris was lodged in the Grayson County Jail.
The investigation is still ongoing and is being led by Trooper Lonnie Hodges.
On Saturday, a tractor trailer accident shut down the interstate for some 10 hours. Kentucky State Police Post 3 Bowling Green responded to I 65 south regarding a commercial motor vehicle that had pulled off the right hand shoulder of the roadway due to the trailer being on fire.
Jarvis M. Washington (26) of Madison, TN, advised that his trailer had a tire to malfunction which caused a spark that ignited his trailer that was carrying hazardous materials. Mr. Washington was able to disengage the tractor from the trailer.
The investigation is still ongoing and is being conducted by Trooper Joel Huff. Tpr. Huff was assisted on scene by Troopers Ronnie Reynolds and Jonathan Biven, Horse Cave, Park City, and Cave City Fire Departments, Hart County, Barren County, and Kentucky Emergency Management, and Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
Tpr. Nick Davis is investigating a collision that occurred today at 2:44 PM CST on KY 90 at the Clinton/Cumberland County line. 24-year-old Caleigh S. Dyer of Albany was traveling east, operating a 2009 Cadillac SUV. She attempted to pass another eastbound vehicle and lost control, leaving the roadway and striking a house. Dyer was airlifted from the scene to Vanderbilt University Hospital where she is listed in stable condition. It is unknown if she was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the collision.
The Kentucky State Police responded to and accident at the intersection of US 150 and KY 555 that involved a tour bus.
Preliminary investigation shows that around 4:22 pm a tour bus being operated by Roderick L. Cook 45 of Brooks, KY was traveling east bound on US 150 when he failed to stop for the red light at the intersection of KY 555. The bus struck a GMC pickup truck traveling south bound on KY 555 which was being operated by William Sims 52 of Williamsburg, KY.
The tour bus, which was owned by Mattingly Tours and Travel out of Bardstown, KY had no other passengers on board at the time of the accident. Mr.Sims was the only occupant in the GMC pickup.
Mr. Cook was airlifted to UK Hospital and listed in stable but critical condition. Mr. Sims was transported and released from Springview Hospital in Lebanon, KY.
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