Mood:
caffeinatedNow Playing: 'Amorised Depreciation' Mores and civility go out the window with the beginning of a new school year. (Animal House/Pets)
Topic: Calamity
I see indications, given new blood coming in from Microsoft's web-oriented past (circa 1999 for Web-applications experience and circa 2004 for distributed transactional platform experience) and restructuring their server taskforces to line up under the Office side of the room. I suspect they have something that will allow them to proceed immediately to integrating their office application stack(s) like they should have been doing back in 2004 and 1999.
What the HELL have they been doing over there spending all that R&D to bring these guys and do what? Where's Oz? Where's the magic clipboard?
Appears to me a once timid toward web-stuff Microsoft has been morphed in some fashion into a confident Microsoft willing to put reputation and honor on the line as evidenced calling back prior employees to save the precious pork belly, as it were, of Mom.
I would say the signs say Microsoft is beginning to say it's moving toward the only thing that would make sense for them to do in this day and time of SaaS maturation.
If they don't get their office products into an integrated engine for productivity and make such productivity package available over the web, the webified versions of office products will have sufficient appeal and capability and integration to wash out any more purchases of that venerable and historic era in business software: the office suite.
Now it will be trailers and coffeeshops - anywhere to where you can run a Verizon single fiber. Multi-100GigaBitsPerSecond for the little guy and the bigger guys get 400GigaBitsPerSecond on a single fiber, mon frer'. Chevrolet coupe'. Instantaneous real time automation for office and vertical industry workflow and activity.
Add convergence to that with image and soung recognition and processing, and we're looking at an explosion in business doability where 100k workers skilled in a boring yob can apply themselves to those users who can't quite get the hang at building and using web applications... this will be the beginning of the end of "programmers" as we know it.
Actually the end began back in February 2001 when VCSY introduced an almost unseen product a couple weeks before Microsoft released Hailstorm. That journey has brought us to this week when Microsoft will address the Open Source audience and will either make sounds like a pack animal welcoming social intercourse and butt smelling for transparency... as opposed to a wounded bovine leaking blood, guts and brains from a run through the rocks by a pack of angry customers. They can be worse that hyenae.
But, now, the wolves smell the blood and they're closing in... while Gates is in his cloister counting the millions he sold last month for whatever philantrobic endeavour he might alight upon. Good riddance to bad attitude.
Repurposing an entire industry is what IBM is in the process of. Big dealing with humanity's future they are. Wise counsel of large minds in maelstrom it is. Watch for the weasels as they are the rats in the cornbins of history.
Good luck world. Brother Rasta Mafoozle, Pastor of the Rasta Moofo Wanga Pangy Nook Nook Pasteurization Church of the Almighty Pissed & Bar and Grill wishes you 'Good luck with all that.'. We got Jax and Blue Ribbon and some Al Green on the Juke box and a cabin cruiser in the brine and monkey man making fire is one thing. Making a steam engine is entirely a different time. God knows who made the fire so he ain't impressed.
Sit back, relax, listen to the sax in the wax and I'll be right back after a few words of wisdom along the graveled way...
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... but the lawyers could just be walking toward the door knowing they'll end up signing a settlement before they have to leave. They know they can call back the scarecrows and keep the crop growing a bit longer before they have to prove they got the goods and the goose.
If MSFT management and IP lawyers blow this, their plans for the next five years could be nothing but a question... and MSFT glory and money nothing but a painful fading memory for millions... of people... not just dollars. Millions times money. Tune in next time for 'Muckmuck's Travail' brought to you by 'Shake Chicken No Get Egg Make Bacon' the other alternative in throwback breakfast. 'No make eggos. Make pork.'...
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...so shut up and let me think dammit. Where'd you put The Gun?
Duuhhh I put it in the cooler, Boss like you said.
You idiot. I said we need to hire a tooler... we're under The Gun... Under the guy they call 'The Gun'. You was supposed to put the guy in cubicle tree. Jeez am I ever going to get my money back on that education? You're a career criminal, steal some batteries and a hearing aid for crying out loud...
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...and watch Mister Frickaseed say it real fast now... ready?
crispy critter
kitty litter
firecracker poo
you have no idea just what we'll do for you
if you gather round here we'll let you sniff the gloo
firecracker
tally wacker
sis is in the doo
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Maw. Where's my wood leg?
