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chattyNow Playing: Why'd Ya Tell Me You Wouldn't Tell A Lie?
Topic: Apple Fritters
So, Miss Mary Jo, what do you think of this alignment of the coincidental stars now? Shake and bake, little darling. It's shake and bake and I helped!
The people in Apple and in Microsoft are up against some hard realities in the world of the web. They can't get on it because the service road in their neighborhoods are blocked due to, how shall we say... I think in the Bay Area they call it a 'Police Action'. The reality is that Microsoft and Apple have been naughty boys and girls and airing of the truth will be followed by some good old fashioned mouth soaping and butt switching.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=388
April 12th, 2007
Leopard delay: ‘Cupertino, start your photocopiers!’
Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 5:56 pmSo, the story about Apple delaying the Leopard version of Mac OS X from a few weeks ago was half right.
Bootcamp wasn't behind the delay; the iPhone supposedly is. Now Leopard is slated to ship in October 2007 instead of "spring 2007."
Like Microsoft did when it took folks off Windows Vista to work on Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2, Apple is taking folks off Leopard to work on the iPhone.
If I were Microsoft, I'd launch a "Cupertino, start your photocopiers!" (just like Apple's "Redmond, start your photocopiers!") campaign. Microsoft could say: "Who's copying who now, huh? We thought of the not-enough-engineers excuse way back in 2004!"
Will Microsoft dare to be that creative? No….
No. I think Microsoft is reliving their own life-changing event last Spring by watching Apple Management grapple with a plausible explanation to give for trashing such a remarkable and crucial marketing position.
And Why? For a similarly ridiculous reason, plausible to those in the media and the public who don't know how a software company works; 'not enough people' 'specialty' requirements and ,the one I really like, 'needs more testing'. What is that a deathray or something?
Was it REALLY a hydrogen filled trial baloon that ended up on the barn?
God, that's scary isn't it? XML enabled virtualization is so dangerous and so difficult to do and pull off that moth Microsoft with Viridian and Apple with Leopard are saying to the tech world. 'Yeah, guys, it's really tough but we're going in there slogging and swinging just as soon as we get this niftier thing to working so we can make a telephone call from, like, nowhere.' So Leotardy it is.
No wonder Microsoft pulled back on Viridian as well. Virtualization is a bitch, ain't it? I wonder how in the world VCSY managed to get that patent if it's so damn hard?
mmmm xml hard make rock break hit rock make hand bleed hit rock on head make head bleed let go rock make toe bleed rock not good xml not good mmm
Delay Leopard until October (Apple fiscal year over in September so maybe they might need to announce some'restructuring' and/or some 'investments') THIS close to finishing? Weren't they talking about floating a beta by now? What delayed them? No, seriously. For real this time. What delayed both Microsoft and Apple in the same way like this?
Remember the Exhibit A Exhibit B piece? Think through that scenario and look at an XML virtualized OS architecture in a fresh and unique way; through 'somebody' else's patents namely the Vertical patents on XML Agent and SiteFlash WebOS.
Like I've said ad nauseum (even I am getting tired of saying it), in my view, the join between proprietary and XML and the transaction capabilities and executable sequences are fully covered by the claims of patent "Web-based collaborative data collection system." 7,076,521.
Where do you go from there? It looks like Microsoft introverted into a server self to bury the you know whats in the you know wheres.
That patent was allowed VCSY Wednesday March 29, 2006. Microsoft announced the Vista delay Wednesday March 22, 2006. When VCSY was granted the patent Thursday July 13 2006, Microsoft killed WinFS as a standalone publicly available product Monday June 26, 2006. It's now buried in a box of dotNet tools.
Am I thrown by the apparent ability of Microsoft to 'follow that car' while driving AHEAD of the target? No because I assume Microsoft had prior understanding of the role the patent would play, not just in Microsoft's connections with XML but with ANY company tasked with transacting from Proprietary to XML datastore and from XML to Proprietary datastore. And everything is a datastore in the sense of the word.
So I'm not surprised at all to see Microsoft hitting the breaks to keep from running over those lines. Microsoft lawyers no doubt drive that company as all do and they get paid richly to know precisely those sorts of things. It is up to the engineering departments to exploit those play possibilities until the lawyers say stop. It's the responsibility of the managers to have such advanced information and remain ethical with same.
To me it's all like Newman when the cops showed up for nabbing the dog. The little mutt had to run all the way back to mom's to scratch on the door for shelter... so it took at least that much time for them to get the news.
When Newman said to the cops 'What took ya so long?' he was obviously waiting because he knew they would arrive eventually.
Mens rea, I believe they call it.
I like to watch stuff I don't have to think about, you know?
