Microsoft going to buy Dell?

slylittlefox said:
I can't stand Jon Honeyball. He's so pompous and snobby that I cringe when reading his articles. Not only that, they're often poorly written, and talk about months old tech as if he's on the cutting edge. His diagnostic articles are much of the same - talking about some routine Exchange server task as if he's just stumbled across some hidden gem, and had it verified by Gates himself. One minute of Googling will produce a more coherent and comprehensive article covering the same topic.

He's also a classic narcissist, often giving what he must feel are scintillating glimpses into his over indulgent lifestyle and boasting about this and that contact in 'the industry'.

"Like I was speaking to Bill Gates at Microsoft, whilst building seventeen 2003 Domain Controllers on my sixty-four core i7 with 84GB of RAM behemoth desktop small form factor PC, and I just thought to myself - god I need to buy a new Porche."

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH :mad:

Every time I read PC Pro, I get so angered at his crap articles, viewpoints and opinions, that I draft an e-mail to him. When I've finished, I delete the draft. I'm better than that :p Henceforth, I don't buy PC Pro for the extortionate 7 quid or whatever it costs now. I keep old copies for toilet roll. Just for the joy in seeing my poo smeared on Jon Honeyballs big fat smarmy face.

Sorry, he really gets my back up.



Look at his face. Just look at his face. :mad: I'm drafting an e-mail now. :mad:
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Best post I've read in quite a while. :D
 
slylittlefox said:
I can't stand Jon Honeyball. He's so pompous and snobby that I cringe when reading his articles. Not only that, they're often poorly written, and talk about months old tech as if he's on the cutting edge. His diagnostic articles are much of the same - talking about some routine Exchange server task as if he's just stumbled across some hidden gem, and had it verified by Gates himself. One minute of Googling will produce a more coherent and comprehensive article covering the same topic.

He's also a classic narcissist, often giving what he must feel are scintillating glimpses into his over indulgent lifestyle and boasting about this and that contact in 'the industry'.

"Like I was speaking to Bill Gates at Microsoft, whilst building seventeen 2003 Domain Controllers on my sixty-four core i7 with 84GB of RAM behemoth desktop small form factor PC, and I just thought to myself - god I need to buy a new Porche."

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH :mad:

Every time I read PC Pro, I get so angered at his crap articles, viewpoints and opinions, that I draft an e-mail to him. When I've finished, I delete the draft. I'm better than that :p Henceforth, I don't buy PC Pro for the extortionate 7 quid or whatever it costs now. I keep old copies for toilet roll. Just for the joy in seeing my poo smeared on Jon Honeyballs big fat smarmy face.

Sorry, he really gets my back up.



Look at his face. Just look at his face. :mad: I'm drafting an e-mail now. :mad:
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that just made me lol so loud I think I just woke up the missus:D
 
slylittlefox said:
I'm drafting an e-mail now. :mad:
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Send it...

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Athanor said:
No, no they don't.
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If you were here - I would put a bet on it that there WILL be MS PC's and Laptops within 18 months.
As InformationWeek recently reported....

"As Bach points out, Microsoft stores will provide a way for the company to connect directly with customers, and OEMs will still deliver the bulk of Microsoft's products. There's just one problem. If Microsoft only sells its own current hardware, it will have a big hole where PCs are concerned. I don't think that hole will remain. Microsoft will need to have some OEM hardware partners in the store that showcase its main moneymakers, Windows and Office. Without them, it wouldn't be much of a store.

Or is there another plan? Last year I recommended another option, that Microsoft make its own PCs. If Microsoft opens its own stores, this would make even more sense. By selling its own Microsoft-branded PCs, Microsoft would own the entire customer relationship, including software, PCs, peripherals, and service. This could definitely happen; Zune and XBox are signs that Microsoft is no longer content to let OEMs dictate how Microsoft's software will be delivered to consumers."
 
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divosuk said:
If you were here - I would put a bet on it that there WILL be MS PC's and Laptops within 18 months.
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I'll bet you one packet of Tesco Finest Cookies that in 18months there will not be any MS manufactured PCs (either under the MS brand or through ownership) on sale anywhere in the world to the mainstream public in 18months from the date of this post.

Fancy accepting this bet?
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I'll bet you one packet of Tesco Finest Cookies that in 18months there will not be any MS manufactured PCs (either under the MS brand or through ownership) on sale anywhere in the world to the mainstream public in 18months from the date of this post.

Fancy accepting this bet?
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Who said Manufactured ?

I might be willing to take the bet if you want to be a bit more specific with the branded/manufactured statement.
 
divosuk said:
If you were here - I would put a bet on it that there WILL be MS PC's and Laptops within 18 months.
As InformationWeek recently reported....

"As Bach points out, Microsoft stores will provide a way for the company to connect directly with customers, and OEMs will still deliver the bulk of Microsoft's products. There's just one problem. If Microsoft only sells its own current hardware, it will have a big hole where PCs are concerned. I don't think that hole will remain. Microsoft will need to have some OEM hardware partners in the store that showcase its main moneymakers, Windows and Office. Without them, it wouldn't be much of a store.

Or is there another plan? Last year I recommended another option, that Microsoft make its own PCs. If Microsoft opens its own stores, this would make even more sense. By selling its own Microsoft-branded PCs, Microsoft would own the entire customer relationship, including software, PCs, peripherals, and service. This could definitely happen; Zune and XBox are signs that Microsoft is no longer content to let OEMs dictate how Microsoft's software will be delivered to consumers."
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Microsoft are a software company that relys on partners. For MS to release a PC that directly competed with thier biggest partners/cutomers on whom they rely for 90% of the business would be commercial suicide.

The only time MS ever makes an entry into a hardware market is if they have no partners there already, or to open up a new market. Even then it's only done to promote the software. Xbox is all about the games and Xbox Live service, not the console hardware (which lost money for most of it's life). Zune is about the online music service (hence why it's not available in Europe yet as it would be if it was just about the hardware).

For pcs/laptops etc it'd just be another pc on the market except with a MS logo. Anti compete laws would prevent MS from giving thier own PC windows capabilites that were not available to all OEMS. Totally pointless from a MS point of view as there is hardly any margin in tin and the set up costs would negate pretty much any profit for years to come. From a software point of view every copy or Win7 sold on a MS laptop would have been sold on a Dell/HP/Samsung/whatever laptop anyway so what would be the point.

There is absolutely no point whatsoever in MS entering the laptop/netbook/pc market. Not competeing with it's customers and partners is almost certainly a big reason as to why there's no mouse / web browser /email for Xbox live. The hardware is perfectly capable of rendering a 1920x1080 picture on a LCD TV giving a good web/email/lightweight word processing experience. There's already a chatpad qwerty keyboard for 360. Just add a mouse and you have a £100 PC that fulfils the computing needs of a huge amount of households across the world.

Of course it would terminaly weeweeoff all the MS PC partners so there's no reason to do it.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
To clarify, a PC sold either as a Microsoft PC or under the Dell name but with 100% MS ownership.
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Apparently it is true that Microsoft will be opening their own PC stores on the high street, so we will have "The Apple Store" and "The Microsoft Store".

How this will affect their OEM partners I'm not sure, but I can bet the majority of them won't be particularly happy as the general public will flock towards the "true" Microsoft brand.
 
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