The Zune Phone Cometh at Keynote 2 Keynote

or not… Apparently Steve Ballmer recently said that the Zune phone is “not a concept you’ll ever get from us”. In other words, we’ll let Apple develop the iPhone, then wait 5 years to see if it’s a hit. If it is, we’ll try to play catchup and produce an insanely crappy ‘iPhone Killer’. History does repeat itself! I can’t say that I’m all that disapointed, lol. If your curious as to what the Zune Phone will look like, I think Jean-Paul Buquet hit the nail on the head with his ‘iPhone Killer’ comic :)

Microsoft iPhone Killer

Source: MacsimumNews.com

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1 AndieCZ Apr 28th, 2007 at 4:24 am

Cool, I made a note about that sexy brown color on blog today as well.
2 lrd Apr 28th, 2007 at 9:22 am

Man,when in the world is Microsoft going to actually innovate anything other than a paperclip or wizard guide in Word???
3 lrd Apr 28th, 2007 at 9:28 am

On another recent note, still involving MS, since when is a company allowed to count four months of income in a three month span ( the 1st calendar quarter in 2007) and call it a 68% increase in income???? Iamgine if Apple was allowed to carry over it’s December sales into this last quarter and count it as this quarter’s revenues! They would have posted a 300% rise in net come!!
4 Tom B. Apr 28th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

“since when is a company allowed to count four months of income in a three month span ( the 1st calendar quarter in 2007) and call it a 68% increase in income????”

Hey, people fell for it. Another question to ask Ballmer: How many XBox 360’s are in living rooms vs sitting in dusty warehouses in the back of CompUSA? I know the answer is “a lot”, but I’ve also heard that MSFT has been “stuffing the channel”.
5 Nick Young Apr 29th, 2007 at 12:04 am

Yeah, I guess its easy to count an xbox as sold once it’s delivered to a retailer. As far as the for month quarter goes… that seems pretty low, even for Microsoft.
6 John Lockwood Apr 30th, 2007 at 6:01 am

Wait till Microsoft issue their next quarters figures and have to show all the copies of Vista that have been shipped back to them unsold after they stuffed the channel with copies last quarter.

Any bets on negative sales for Vista next quarter?
7 AndieCZ May 1st, 2007 at 12:53 pm

I think, the sales of Windows Vista will be growing. Even my mother knows, there is some new exciting thing from Microsoft.

And as I saw the system working, it is really not bad. Looks like Mac OS X.
8 Nick Young May 1st, 2007 at 2:11 pm

I agree with Andie. Sales of Vista will grow, especially because Microsoft will eventually stop selling XP leaving Windows users no other option. (Other than switching to a Mac!) I know that the corporate world is a bit hesitant to adopt Vista, but the IT departments will only be able to hold out for so long. Eventually management will begin to feel the need to be on the cutting edge (at any cost) and start pressuring IT to upgrade. Everyone knows that big corporations suffer from inferiority complexes, which will drive the uneducated to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars upgrading to Vista. Its a sad world… For those Windows users at least :)
9 Nomad/Xero May 1st, 2007 at 9:01 pm

Do you know of a commonly used CAD program that runs on the mac? I almost have my company convinced to buy Mac Pros and install XP on them so we can run CAD, but it would be a lot simpler if there was a good professional CAD program for the mac. (I am looking for something on the SolidWorks level)

I know it would be a terrible shame to only run XP on nice new Mac Pros, but I figure a mac with XP on it is better than no mac at all and the price is better than a Dell.
10 Nick Young May 5th, 2007 at 2:38 am

You know, unfortunately I don’t know a whole lot about CAD and even less about the Mac spin offs of CAD. The last time I used CAD was in high school to draw a few circles in AutoCAD, lol. If I were you I’d see if someone one on of these 3 forums could answer your question.

http://forums.appleinsider.com/
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/
http://forums.macnn.com/

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