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camworld says:

Am I the only one who thinks this diagram makes no sense at all?
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Jackson West says:

What makes me laugh (besides the horribly ugly design in general) is the bubble iMac in the lower right.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

nickb says:

Microsoft is trying to copy too many things at the same time so they've ended up with a huge mash up that makes no sense whatsoever!
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

mojos says:

It looks like it's going to be a very rainy season for MS, with a chance of showers and even some hurricanes
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

ekai says:

you can tell by the 0's and 1's behind Other Software that they've thought of everything.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Sergei.Dot.M says:

Oh.. cool.
Does make sense for me.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

A.H.M. says:

"People Network/Search Network/Ad Network" are apparently code words for MSN only.

Also, I like how this slide is three separate diagrams at once.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

I like the rhetoric of the image. If it's not Micro$oft, then it is small in the corner and outdated. Also the cloud above other software looks like a rain cloud that is raining digits down upon the iMac and other non Micro$oft products. Dumb.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

stallonecn says:

He must be proud of so many products.
But, these things do not make sense for me....
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

t-i-l [deleted] says:

Oh - my - god.

Please lord, buy him an Apple Macintosh.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Kernel Panic says:

Gates has a real talent to make things look way more complicated than they really are.

Or maybe it is a simplified view....
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

pberry says:

"I'll never take acid again..."
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

tirol04 says:

the clouds really make the picture whole...
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Mr_Strat says:

I think it sucks...because it reminds me of other stuff that sucks. It sucks in ways that stuff hasn't sucked before.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

no3rdw says:

While the slide may be confusing and crouded, the color and contrast of that projection is incredible. I want Bill's projector.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Kyle Jones says:

the bubble imac is what really throws me off....
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Sr Viva L'Amour says:

My favorite thing isn't just that this diagram will be dated in 5 hours, but that it's already dated. Brilliant! Ad Network!
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Membranophonist says:

Someone better tell Bill that his ugly is showing.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

oisch says:

bubbles, bubbles...
But as long as I don't have to use any of this rubbish.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

piermario says:

I'm not sure whether it looks like weather forecast or a bad photoshop joke. I'm sure it's definitely ugly.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

peterjsin says:

I don't like this slide.

I think I get it though.

Xbox connects to Xbox Live. It connects gamers together. Where they can play together.

Windows connects to Windows Live. It connects to Windows users together. So they can complain about the lack of security in Windows.

Office connects to Office Live. It connects Office to Microsoft's servers so they can steal ideas from competitors, have inside information, blackmail competition, and take over the world.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

James John Malcolm says:

Marketing slides at their best.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

seizethedave says:

Same thing every couple years with MS.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

Skabob11 says:

I feel so bad that a Mac is in that diagram.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

gomi says:

yikes! looks like someone threw up on powerpoint :lol:

@ skaL i think putting the imac there is their vain attempt to make the slide look 'cool'... somebody oughta tell them that it looks oh so 1998...

geez bill gates, get a real presentation software and a mac. for real.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

now u see it [nowuseit] says:

Compare this to Steve Jobs presentation style = world view

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Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

Oyvind Solstad says:

OK, this wins the Grand prize as "Worst Powerpoint ever". They should include it as an install with every copy of Powerpoint, in the folder "How to NOT do it". Do they even have designers at Microsoft?
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

d2s says:

And does this diagram mean that most of the PC's are buried under the ground? And that "Other Software" is so small and in the corner. Mayby they think that there isn't any? ;)

That PowerPoint presentation could really have been better if they would have used something else than PowerPoint.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

splorp says:

"Please lord, buy him an Apple Macintosh."
... and then do us all a favour and drop it square on top of his tiny little head...
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

penmachine says:

Check out the contrast with this old slide from Steve Jobs. And these two articles discussing how their presentation styles contrast.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

Kerby 8 says:

Like his operating system, Bill Gates once again proves that more is less.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

Bala Murali says:

One of the most useful products which time will see. I have always felt the need for something like Office Live. working on office products, especially a spreadsheet online and ability to share it with groups.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

Aegir says:

Everyone's using Frutiger these days.

Or should I say, everyone's misusing Frutiger these days. Sigh.

Anyway, so what's he saying? It looks like they want a unified 'Live' service, but can't because that would mean combining the game service with the office service. So they end up with all these little clouds. Microsoft is like a government - touting last century's big idea as the Way Forward.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

AndrewNZ says:

I'm personally looking forward to when several of these clouds collide and I can play Xbox games from the comfort of the Word interface. And I do not hear the sound of porcine wings overhead. Oh no.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

sleepy terry says:

Loving his pout and hands though. Larry Grayson, anyone?
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

Full-Time Lover says:

more like MICROSLOLFT!
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

phauly says:

clouds, clouds, clouds, ... microsoft plans are a bit cloudy these days, uh?
How did we end up here with someone not even able to speak effectively designing the software that runs on 95% of computers worldwide? How? How? How?
Hopefully Ubuntu will set everything back free ...
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

Acid Zebra says:

I am hoping that 'ad network' actually refers to 'Active Directory' and not 'Advertisement'. But with MS, who knows?

For the previous commenter: You ask how? Marketing. Go shoot any marketeer you come across. It don't matter, they are all evil. or stupid. or both.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

mlesiak says:

Oh, what a nice fractocumulus ;)
--
I've got LINUX:
at work (debian sarge),
on my laptop (slackware)
and at home (debian sarge)
:P
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

Yonzie says:

The basic premise:
Windows connects to Windows Live
Office Connects to Office Live
Etcetera...

* Live connects to THE NETWORK

THE NETWORK brings you people, search and ads.
Would you like some ads with that license of Office today sir?
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

Soaring Albatross says:

"Search Network" and "Ad Network" are Google's strength. "* Live" are Ajax which is used extensively by Google as well. Microsoft is strong in copying!
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

simonraybould says:

I'm a professional presentation skills trainer. All I can say is "Thank God that most people are as bad at this as Gates". I'll never run out of clients! :)

Seriously, at our presentation training courses we spend half our time trying to get people away from this kind of crap. Slides like this save me sooooo much time explaining why!
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

myeppliance says:

Microsoft Live is horrible
When how and what does Microsoft think its doing changing my default search engine to Microsoft LIVE

(try it type something in the address bar and see)

Not only does there search show nothing close to what I see in many other search engines but it locked up the computer to the point I had to shut it down... what else were they trying to change in my system to cause such a disaster.
Its so troubling when you see a company desperate enough to pull a stunt like this,
Silly little antics lead nowhere but in bad review almost as bad as yahoo,
Cheap tricks receive cheap responses , Microsoft is losing the search engine race.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

macewan says:

@myeppliance, switch to Firefox.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Ch0c0l8_L0v3r_43va says:

"Please lord, buy him an Apple Macintosh."
"... and then do us all a favour and drop it square on top of his tiny little head..."

lolololololololol (omfg)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

b3rt says:

macs and cell phones are just "other devices" compared to MICROSOFT!
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

lahc3n says:

microsoft isn't so bad but i am sure that gnu/linux is more useful and sure touch the human's side of collaboration and freedom
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

penmachine says:

But their slide shows aren't any better.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

rwitte42 says:

What this says to me is that Microsoft still hasn't gotten the message about platform-agnostic cloud services. They think their stuff should be a big closed loop (their device, their cloud, their network), and everyone else can go sit in the "other" bucket.

And *that* is why they're having their asses handed to them by Google in this space.
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

ibrahimbah43@yahoo.fr says:

je suis ravis des voire cette homme
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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