Blunders !!! Come on Microsoft Do something better

Hi All,

Today while going through the microsoft website i noticed something so funny could not resist to put it down. Now let me remind you as to how has Microsoft listed out internet explorer having numerous number of features and shown itself leading towards the best browsers.

Defects 1. Safari not included (FEAR maybe)

2. Chrome included (OMG.... version 10)

3. Firefox Included (OOOOMG ... version 4 .... now come on !!!!)

The strategy to compare with the older products is something i am not able to perceive or is it that they regard the world dumb enough to not notice it !!!

really something has to be fed into the brains of people working in Microsoft that GUYS!! ... there is a thin line in believing that others are idiots and in proving others that you are one, And Microsoft has done just that.

here is the screenshot of the same..

This has somehow become a nice time pass to go through all the further more defects and wanted ignorances being adopted by the firm. :)

Steve Jobs Quitting as CEO, Is it the end of Innovation... ??

Today most of us came to know about the apple story about steve jobs leaving the post of the CEO due to bad health conditions. It might not have come as a shock since it was expected due to his health conditions, but the question now remains is there anyway the move would impact Apple after he is gone.

Steve Jobs can be regarded as the true geek, or a Leader with the quality to make change in the industry. A change so powerful enough which make the consumers think about the way they were living, and revolutionized the digital age with products like the iPad, iPod, iPhone, Macintosh OS and many others. Never has a achievement in the books of steve jobs been easy looking into the history of the organization which started as a illegal Blue boxes used to make free long-distance calls to now a world leader of phones, music devices, laptops and entertainment with style.

A quote which i was reading in one of the websites today stated, something which Jobs had told -- "I was worth over $1 million when I was 23," Jobs would later say in a video inter- view, "and over $10 million when I was 24 and over $100 million when I was 25. And it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money."

This was the statement given by steve jobs when the company went public in 1980 releasing an IPO which made Steve Jobs a millionaire even faster than Ford Motor Company.

The life of this man was not easy in anyway soon after the release of the Macintosh, Steve had a conflict with the company due to which he was sent out from the Company he had founded. But he did not give up, the later startup NeXT which contributed a lot in the coming years especially when it came to the design of the iPod and iTunes. in 1986 Steve Jobs purchased the computer graphics division of Lucasflim for $10 million and founded the Company today known as PIXAR, and the rest is history as to how the graphic storytelling and movies changed with the release of ToyStory, Finding Nemo and others. Steve Jobs proved that the ideas he had, had the capacity to change the industry and his ideas were not just though of but a lot of effort was given to it to revolutionize the view of business.

"When these films take four years to make and they last for 60 or 100 years, you start to develop a longer focal length point of view than just the next six months," Jobs said on the Charlie Rose show in 1996. And when the company Pixar went public the biggest IPO of the year beating Netscape in 1995. Jobs became a billionaire.

Steve Jobs was then re-called in Apple given the power he deserved and then the rest is history, which today's generation calls the i's of the industry. (iPad, iPod and the iPhone).

In Jan 2007 when the iPhone was released it was the first of its kind because for the first time a handset was selling the carrier. (ATnT) and later on iPhone turned into the profit engine which starting running Apple Computers Inc. which after the release of the iPhone got named as Apple Inc. as we know today as the consumer powerhouse.

The idea of apple having retain exclusive outlets for their own products was criticized by the industry experts but Steve proved them wrong when the Retail outlets of apple became a huge success and gained profits which were not expected or predicted by anyone.

Today after this legacy of the legend, his resignation from the post of CEO not only questions the future of apple but also the innovation and quality of products its known for.

Apple is lined up for the new model of iPhone in the end September and the new iPad sometime in next year, these are the last remains of the legacy the man has left behind, the later progress of the company has yet to be seen.

As Steve Jobs said “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?”

He has successfully to his word created the 5 dents in the universe Apple II, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and the iPad.

A thumbs up to the living legend and the world class innovator who will always be admired for the contribution he has given to the industry and the motivation of the new ideas, with the motto of nothing is impossible and the industry can be changed the way you want it, just that the idea should be strong enough to drive the industry and not be driven by the industry.

This summary is written in dedication of the Man whom i admire for his "Real Geek" attitude and strong business sense to foresee the market and understand the consumer minds by making them have a need for new innovative products.

The new age ...

Today the industry is swarming with new products, technology has changed the way from what it was previously thought to be and what it has reached currently. There are a lot of challenges in the current product line and the demand of the gadgets is increasing day by day. The computing innovation has died out and innovations are based on money making ideas. Companies like Microsoft, Intel, Nokia, Motorola have died out in moving the industry and are still trying to make a progress in the market by trying to sell out ideas which are not much of use but are made a need.

The main fuel for this revolution was the renowned innovator (metaphorically) Apple Computer Inc. which started the trend of introducing new products which were accepted by the public since they were different and had a whole new idea about them. Often quoted as the dents which have been created in the universe products like Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad have revolutionized the computing industry changing the idea that to be tech-savy a person needed to be geek. Today in the modern world or the era of computing the product line presented to the industry by the Apple Inc. was a different thought on its own. Industry experts declined the ideas of products which had no ideal use for the consumer have today made the consumer demand for them, in a way making market for the product by just its looks, design and simplicity.

This change has been credited to the One man Steven Phil Jobs who founded the Apple Inc. and then later on went ahead with a thought and plan to release the products in the market at the precise time when it gains the popularity and creates a market share of its own products in such a way that even though pricey still the consumer would purchase it. Industry today is in a state that Apple products are the best in line, which was even recently seen in the stock markets as Apple Inc. overtook the oil giant Exon chemicals as the US largest company. Also there was no idea in the telecoms market that the carrier would have to change its way based on the phone the consumer uses so as to support its features (ATnT) with the product iPhone the company not only revolutionized the telecoms domain but also redefined a smart phone altogether.

Apart from the work Apple was doing in the market to introduce new products the decade also saw the rise of firms like Google and Facebook which not only gained market but also slowly became the world gaints taking of the market from IBM and HP to mode different domain the Internet. Google became famous by the policy of Do no Evil and Facebook revolutionized the social networking and brought it to a level such that people now use it for keeping in touch with dear ones.

Emotions, Attraction, Glamor, Status, Knowledge were some of the areas where the new age products aimed at targeting the consumer. Industry changed from products to ideas and now its in a situation that the idea is more valuable than the product itself. Ideas have changed the line of thinking of the current audience and the consumers can no longer be wooed with the charms and methods of the old age line-up products. The new era of computing and devices which were a decade ago not even thought of have now become a need of the people in the day to day lives.

we still remember the days when children used to spend times into books and in libraries to prepare a research project or read about a new technology, today google has revolutionized the digital world in a way that sitting at home in the comfort of the surroundings a person can gather information pertaining to any subject and any topic in the world. obtain data about the latest ongoing researches and the new ideas which are being developed and worked upon. In a way the world together has been shortened and seems just a click or a touch away.

Information is power, in other ways the information age has also seen some of the best and the worst effects of it. Technology is a tool as well as a curse, anti-social elements are now using the Internet to communicate and tracking of the people has furthermore become difficult task. Where we see a wikipedia a free online encyclopedia containing data about anything on the earth, we also see wikileaks which has brought out everything hidden since decades about the governments and the organizations deepest secrets right before the eyes of the common man. today the common man is no longer ignorant about the world, in-fact in many situations is far more well informed than the other non-tech counterparts. These rapid trends but obviously has generated market and business to many entrepreneurs.

with the boon of the new generation of everything we also have a curse because the process of understand and learning has reduced, people in the industry have been replaced by machines, and the average understanding and the effort made to study and analyze things has decreased significantly. It can also be called an age where if a person is not aware of the Internet, then he is regarded as an illiterate. Core branches of engineering, Medicine and even Arts have had the impact of the growing technology industry and the changes in the IT sector is bringing in further changes in all domains. Its now a chain and the series of events lead to different others, which many times are not even predictable.

With the dawn of the new century we have seen the markets crashing and the effects being more adverse than they were before. the small mistakes or the improper government policies just not only impact the single industry or sector anymore, today its effects are seen just anywhere. We have seen the demise of the giants like the Lehman Brothers, Satyam and a numerous more companies which could not have been thought about.

US no longer remains the innovator of the world, the new brains and ideas are not just limited to the west any longer. Technology has brought the world closer and the information age has given power to anyone to become a hero or start another innovation. China, India and other south eastern countries are being recognized as the major market and industry movers. competition has grown further and the time is not about conflict of interest but the competition of the common interest to grow and prosper, as the world today has become a market and the players can come from anyplace, its just a matter of time about who wins the war and who makes the maximum profit.