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Title: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android "fee" Post by Oldfeller on 08/04/14 at 09:55:59 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28640628 Microsoft, having now taken over Nokia COMPLETELY and having chopped off 100% of all Android products and fired all the Android people (just keeping ONLY the Windows products and people) has given Samsung an arguable legal window in which to stop paying the Android "extortion fees" that Samsung has been paying Microsoft. Samsung has petitioned their South Korean government to stop Microsoft from extorting money from them with no contractual or legal basis to do so as Microsoft has NO ANDROID PRODUCTS at this point in time. Microsoft has always refused to state exactly what intellectual property of theirs that Android supposedly impinges upon, but has instead simply asked for a fixed fee so that Microsoft doesn't sue you over IP rights. Looks like MS has got to go figure out what they are actually doing now, since Samsung won't pay the extortion fees any more. Be smart, Microsoft --- your customer reputation absolutely sucks right now and adding extortion charges (the South Korean case) to your plate is NOT in your best interest right now. You just actively threw away your interest in Android (factually) so you can't be extorting payments for your thrown away "intellectual property" any more -- assuming you actually had something for real originally, which has always been sorta debatable in the eyes of Android folks. ::) |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/04/14 at 19:03:25 Acting in support of the open source community (and themselves) the Chinese government has begun raiding MS China offices searching for items related to certain current Chinese anti-trust suits. One of the things found and released publicly was the full listing of MS's top secret anti-android patent "big club" materials (information kept top secret by MS as they threatened various companies and extorted money from them without ever saying what for). http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/chinese-govt-reveals-microsofts-secret-list-of-android-killer-patents/ http://windowsitpro.com/industry/china-further-bullies-microsoft It is becoming clear that China is getting tired of MS's bullshite and is taking police/military/governmental action directly against certain Chinese based MS behaviors. By this, MS has been put on notice by the Chinese government to cease spying in all forms through their operating system hooks, back doors etc. etc. Windows 8 is no longer tolerated in China on any governmental machine. MS will be held liable for all costs incurred in removing their "illegal" software. |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/05/14 at 05:35:04 Microsoft may have greatly blunted their "big club" by entering into the Rockstar Troll consortium and combining their patents with the old Nortel stuff being used by the Rockstar Troll company. This co-mingling of intellectual property weakens the base property -- as ownership is "shared" and any court decision on a Rockstar case now automatically enjoins MS as well. Rockstar has had many of their patent infringement cases tossed out of court and each line item invalidated removes one item from Microsoft's feared secret "big club" list. Many have been declared "lapsed" by passage of time and many have been declared "passed into the public domain due to non-enforcement by the original company". Case in point -- the File Allocation Table was ruled to be prior technology, dating back to Palto Alto Labs / DEC etc and being part of grants to open source by those companies. Now that IBM has put many many old items into the public domain MS's list effectively gets cut way way down by these IBM actions as anything applying to mainframe IBM machines is now open source. Over half of the 300 patents have been tossed out already and generally these were the clearest of the lot -- the remainder are very esoteric and thus even more dubious. Removal of just the already denied items from the MS case means MS's potential settlements have gone way way way down (as have Rockstar's). In the case of Samsung vs MS -- Samsung had patent sharing in effect with Nokia when MS bought them -- it was far cheaper than what MS was charging. Since MS inherited all of Nokia's responsibilities, then this patent sharing at the far reduced rate is part of it now. Certainly Samsung should not be paying twice for this protection. Samsung also has patent sharing in effect with Google, who KEPT all of Motorola's IP for just this reason. Nortel was just a pimple on Motorola's butt in the cell phone space ..... so most items have a prior counter claim item from the Motorola world. Samsung will go through the pain of the courtroom to debunk MS's big club and have the court assign a realistic value for whatever solid parts there actually are in that ancient wormy rotten wooden club. Then the Rockstar lawyers will insist that part of the money belongs to them and after that foo-rah is all over Microsoft's "big club" will be reduced to a toothpick. And a more fair and open price will be attached to the real valid intellectual property (whatever the court decides is not opensource or common domain anyway). And then Open Source World, being what it is, will then rewrite their code base to obliterate the very few items that the court says are real and remaining. Many nations (can you say China, South Korea, Germany, France, Spain and dozens of others) are getting really really pissed off at Microsoft right now over XP and may simply disallow MS's trollish actions completely by issuing statements that MS's "Big Club" list has been viewed by them as common domain for some time now and any judgments made in a USA court on this "big club" list will not be enforced in their country. ::) ..... and when you are only a paltry 14% of computing you are just a minor pissant irritant to a major government who can simply kick you out of their country like China just did. Did you know that MS currently makes more actual dollars blackmailing companies over the "Big Club" list than they do in all of the rest of their mobile business added together? |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/05/14 at 07:29:39 http://rolandh31.wordpress.com/tag/bingbooks/ http://strawn-04.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-will-fail.html http://core5.staticworld.net/images/article/2014/02/windows-8.1-with-bing-100248314-large.jpg A new term has entered the computing lexicon -- Bingbook A Bingbook is a totally locked down low end computing device powered by the free Microsoft BingOS. Beware the Bingbook ..... unless you are a die hard MS fan you may be disappointed down the road when you attempt to upgrade your BingOS operating system and find that you cannot. Or Microsoft dumps support for it when Win 9 comes out, leaving you with no "free" upgrade rights and no anti-virus update/protection ..... yep, ChromeOS doesn't get viruses but BingOS will have the entire nasty world full of Windows viruses to deal with right from the get go. And a Google Chromebook is backed up performance-wise by massive Google Server Power, so the light hardware flies through any task. MS BingOS, not so much unless you buy a lot of memory and a lot of processor when you buy the machine. ::) Dude, you're getting a bing .... Aw man, I did't know she had a case of the bing when I picked her up, can't I go get 'er a shot or sumpthin' fer it? |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by verslagen1 on 08/05/14 at 08:32:10 1D3E3634373E3E3720520 wrote:
There.... fixed it for you. :-? |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android "fee" Post by Serowbot on 08/05/14 at 08:40:51 Rumor is, MS might allow XP/7 users to upgrade to 9 for free... :-/... |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/05/14 at 09:30:42 If they run true to form, they will allow Chinese customers to upgrade for free and try to charge the USA XP customers full price. If this happens, it will be because the Chinese government has busted MS's balls in favor of their own Chinese people (who are getting screwed over en mass by MS over XP just like we are). Our useless gubs seem to be only interested in getting a nice fat campaign contribution from MS ..... they seem not to be interested in us as a people at all. |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/06/14 at 09:12:08 http://liliputing.com/2014/08/microsoft-surface-pro-3-launches-25-countries-month.html http://cdn.liliputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/microsoft-surface-pro-31.jpg The blue keyboard is "extra cost" optional above the $799 price tag Some 2014 financial figures have become available for Microsoft's Surface Division (Microsoft's tablet business). These figures were rolled up by Computer World since MS refuses to release any data that reflects badly on them (which means you'd be stupid to invest in MS since they either lie or simply won't tell you squat). "Microsoft hasn’t released detailed financial figures for its Surface tablets. But Computer World looked at available data and estimates that the Surface division might have lost as much as $363 million in the last quarter and $1.7 billion since the first Surface tablets launched in 2012. Part of that loss is due to a write-off for unsold inventory of the Surface Mini tablet which Microsoft decided to scrap before launch this summer." Also, to bring lasting joy to all the laptop makers, MS has decided to go into open competition directly against them in the same market slots ...... by this I mean Bingbooks on the low end and Surface 3 on the middle and the top end. Of course MS will say they are competing against Google & Apple in those slots, but it is their loyal laptop makers who will feel the financial hit in the next quarters since they are the ones selling the existing Windows based units that will be replaced by any MS direct sold units. "The Microsoft Surface Pro 3 is a 12 inch Windows tablet with a digital pen, an optional keyboard, and a starting price of $799. While that makes the tablet expensive when compared with Android or iOS devices, Microsoft is positioning the Surface Pro 3 as a complete laptop replacement." So, MS is trying to say their Surface 3 is better than an Apple iOS laptop -- this means they are once again actively deluded in their hardware efforts. Thinking folks will pay more for a Surface 3 and then pay yet even more to get the keyboard is just plain delusional / silly. ::) .... whack them in the nuts again, China -- they still ain't listening. |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/06/14 at 09:29:54 IF GOOGLE WOULD JUST GO AHEAD AND COMBINE CHROME AND ANDROID, or go ahead and add Android full functionality to Chrome (since that seems to be their path) and do it before Win9 comes out, then indeed MS might just fade on away into obscurity in the next few years. Or, open source itself could follow the pathway blazed by the VolksPC folks (using a better processor and more memory) .... http://liliputing.com/2014/08/volkspc-wants-crowdfund-androiddebian-linux-pc.html Somebody needs to come up with the next true general purpose "all devices" OS !!! |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/06/14 at 11:52:54 So, Intel thinks they really own the Chromebook space (or else they are just acting like it, trying to bluff everybody just like they normally do). Here, Intel, good 'ol Acer is calling your bluff. http://liliputing.com/2014/08/acer-cb5-chromebook-tegra-k1-promises-13-hours-battery-life.html http://cdn.liliputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/acer-cb5-311_01.jpg "Acer’s expected to launch a new Chrome OS laptop with a 13 inch display and an NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor soon. Wondering why you’d want a Chromebook with an ARM-based chip when there are plenty of cheap Intel-powered Chrome laptops which offer 8 hours of battery life? Because the Acer CB5 Chromebook will get up to 13 hours of run time." Don't act all gut punched, gasping in pain just yet, Intel. Yes, it is a hard blow, coming from the #1 most powerful best speed ranked mobile chipset with it still doing double your real world, no bullshite 6 hours of real video streaming battery life. Don't look to the left from where Acer just gut punched you, look to the right instead .... Samsung is coming to see you on the right hand side with the #2 ranked mobile chipset -- their brand new Exynos 5433 OctaCore Chromebook jest 'a hooking it on in -- aimed right at the tip of your jaw. But the real pain is going to be coming from the RK3288 punches and the Mediatek punches (3 good solid blows from Mediatek) being swung up at your personals from the low end of things --- them sub $180 Chromebooks are coming real soon to finish up your Christmas TKO with multiple uppercuts to your cost exposed danglies. Some of it will be from your good buddy, Rockchip's various people, using the Chrome cert you actually paid for ..... ain't that nice of them? And because you jest had to have Rockchip to go do it, Allwinner and all the rest seem inclined to go do it too, with them nice new extra powerful octa-core 64 bit chipsets they just designed and built. ;) All them Chinese and South Koreans are jest 'a lining up to take turns using your danglie sack as a speed bag, yes they are ---- Bam, bamma, bamma, bamma, Bam --- BAM !!! :o ouch !!! Yup, Intel "owns" them Chromebooks alright -- and all of the agonizing pain therein as well. PS China just gave MS a good switching for screwing around with them -- so what are you going to get when they get around to dealing with you, Intel? Jest think of all them hardware based backdoors & hooky equipped chipsets you done been sending over there ..... |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/07/14 at 14:56:26 http://liliputing.com/2014/08/microsoft-will-support-latest-versions-internet-explorer-starting-2016.html http://cdn.liliputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/internet-explorer-tile.jpg Vista and Win 7 isn't the only thing that is going to die soon ..... all previous versions of Explorer will die soon as well. Think about this for a second, if Explorer was an integral part of a Windows OS version and they kill that Explorer version -- don't they functionally kill the Windows as well ???? No, you say -- the new version of Explorer 12 would plug right in, right? Nope, not if Microsoft wants you to pay to upgrade your OS about now it won't ..... Stuff will just start blue screening and locking up for no reason, forcng you to upgrade ..... or get a new machine. Or roll over to Linux. ::) Microsoft had better give away Win 9 for free, or what in the world will they have left for market share after they systematically piss everybody off one by one ?? |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android "fee" Post by jcstokes on 08/08/14 at 01:46:00 Are new machines that expensive? |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/08/14 at 07:22:51 Good point --- you can buy an "adequate" replacement Windows box for a couple of two-three hundred dollars right now. The little processors aren't killing fast, but you aren't used to killing fast right now anyway. Most of us currently see performance in the late XP early Win 7 range on our personal machines. And, Windows itself is getting less & less processor and memory intensive as time rolls on as well -- Win 9 is supposed to be able to run OK on 1 gig of systems memory and to "run" on the lesser mobile processors like a dual core ARM processor. So, yes, when the pinch comes you should have lots of options with which to scratch your itch. Win 9 is supposed to correctly support ARM processors and ARM processors are becoming more and more powerful -- actually stronger than the main mass of Intel mobile Bay Trail processors (and at least one of the low end Haswells). (still not as juicy as an i5 or i7, but in the ball park of the low end i3's Since Windows wants to compete against Android in third world markets it has to work well on 1 gig of systems memory and a dual core ARM processor. That is MS's survive and grow challenge. To be competitive, MS has to do this. MS is also feeling the people pinch as they trim down into a competitive mode -- they have got to ditch all the old legacy support functions (and support people) that they possibly can. This fuels the "ditch all the old Explorers" stuff that is going on now. MS can only afford to support the most modern OS and the most modern Explorer and the most modern Office. The rest of this stuff has got to go away, soon. They can no longer have people to support it all any more. MS has finally awoken to the fact they are struggling to survive. They are at 14% market share and are still shrinking ..... |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/08/14 at 09:51:12 http://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screenshot_35-600x334.png Speaking of that lowly 14% MS market share (still declining) Chromebooks and Chromeboxes can now run an ever increasing number of Android apps in their own separate windows (multiple windows work now too). ChromeOS plus Android does comprise a very complete general operating system that does run on all your devices, btw. Android L when it comes out in October will have all their specs directly supporting this interchange, in essence saying a developer only needs to make one (1) Android L app and it can instantly run on all current released modern phones, tablets and ChromePCs from that point forward. This is how Google plans to make the "next general open source operating system" operate. Chrome only apps will fade over time, Android L apps will take over. ::) Good news is that only ONE (1) app needs to be written and kept current. If you want a MODERN good desktop experience, you'd get a good keyboard good screen Chromebook or Chromebox with some extra memory and a very good FAST graphics engine and you can then run all of Android and all of Chrome and all of Open Source Ubuntu stuff, flipping between them with a combo keystroke (or else running at the same time inside different windows that you leave open all the time). Tegra K1 and Exynos 5433 and the Intel Haswell's are currently the preferred Chromebook/box super chips. They all have enough guts to do this trick right now. The next generation of 64 bit chips will all have enough guts to do it from the get go. This is the doom that MS and Intel see coming, and this is why they will currently pay for over half your next Windows machine if you will just please go buy it now ..... and stay totally locked in to Wintel. ;) Here is what is end of world fatal to 'ol MS -- eventually Win 9 apps such as Office must eventually be able to run inside the Android world spec-wise. If it won't run inside a Chromebook/box window like an Android app, then it has excluded itself from the majority of markets and the 86% majority of the new machines. MS is beginning to understand that as 14% (and less) market share holder, they must conform to the general market specs and quit trying to go their own way all the time. Their bread and butter Office apps must be available to the widest possible set of people because that is where MS's money will come from in the future. :) Microsoft, however, is still stuck right now with three (3) non-cooperative operating systems. Windows Phone, Windows RT and Windows 8.1. Whups, should that count actually now be four (4) MS OS's since BingOS exists and it is intentionally non-compatible with anything else? Microsoft Office menu system still won't run on 8" tablets worth a poot and Microsoft has scrapped 20,000 Microsoft Mini tablets (and their big gala introduction) rather than put them out on the market to get yet another MS black eye. Google is very slowly making one big universal OS out of Chrome and Android, being careful not to upset their ecosystem or business partners by carefully controlling the pace of going from two to one combined OS. And they are doing it smart, BTW, leaving Android LEAN & optimized for battery operated phones and tablets while putting the PC interface mojo (the extra weight) into ChromeOS. MS is slowly losing mobile business partners here in the USA but is picking up LOTS of brand new oriental tablet partners who will remain only as long as 1) the bribes hold up and 2) someone is dumb enough to buy the resulting small devices that can't run MS Office worth a poot. Look to see a world full of discounted small Windows tablets hit the Ebay shelves after Christmas as the cherry-picking American reseller guys learn what Acer, Asus and Lenovo learned last Christmas. People may buy some of them small Windows tablets from Wally or Best Buy based upon the slick advertising on the box, but they can take them back just as quick when they realize what they really got for real functionality. Microsoft and Intel are currently bathing in red ink just to have a presence this Christmas. Both are net negative in mobile at this time, and this will only get worse going into next year. But remember, the Windows OS's are very fragmented still and Win8.1 is still very internally inconsistent with Office on any <10" small screen device. Yep, MS Office, the main reason to have MS in the first place. |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/09/14 at 05:20:44 Forbes questions if MS can keep its critical skills pool after the latest lay offs. Forbes analyses the MS layoff structure, uncovers that way more than 18,000 functional jobs have been lost at this point in time. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2014/07/20/microsoft-layoffs-also-impact-thousands-of-contractors/ http://blogs-images.forbes.com/kellyclay/files/2014/07/Microsoft-Nadella-Elop-e1405952228365.jpg "On Thursday, June 21 Microsoft announced it was cutting 18,000 jobs or about 14% of its full-time workforce. It’s the largest layoff in the company’s history, and 12,500 of these jobs are related to Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia ’s mobile phone business. What wasn’t announced publicly was that Microsoft has also informed thousands of its contract workers that they, too, will be affected by the big job cuts. With the new policy, these contractors, including contract workers and exterior vendors (“v-dash” workers, as Microsoft calls them for their badge numbers) and temporary “a-dash” workers will have limited access to Microsoft resources after 18 months. After that they will be prevented from accessing Microsoft’s buildings and network for a period of six months. (If you are lucky this is six months on, six months off with no benefits. Many are not so lucky and are just plain cut.) It’s important to realize just how many contract workers this policy will affect. In 2009, the Seattle Times reported that Microsoft’s external temporary staff numbered about 80,000. When these numbers are considered, and each of these contractors are forced to take their six month hiatus, Microsoft’s layoffs are much more sweeping than just the 18,000 employees initially reported. I spoke with a current contract worker at Microsoft who works under a v-dash badge and wishes to remain anonymous. He said, ”Myself and many of my coworkers have been perma-contract workers at Microsoft for years. Perma-contractor is what those of us who do IT and Server stuff are called because we work to the limit of our contract, take a vacation and come back to the same job. It was a good gig because we typically made more than our salaried coworkers because the hourly was better and we go overtime.” He explained that the change in this policy now means that “I can’t do years of work with only a month or two of a break in-between. This will drastically impact my lifestyle and finances.” While CEO Satya Nadella has indicated he wants to run an even leaner organization, the announcements of layoffs to full-time employees and limited contract workers beg the question of how much these changes will affect the culture of Microsoft. As the company will no longer be home to secure careers for full-time and contract employees alike, the company will now need to make big shifts to ensure that it can retain the loyalty of stellar employees and contract agencies who supply vendors, or risk falling behind to other technology companies that will sweep up this talent instead." Microsoft is doing so poorly they can't even keep their crew -- this is a functional cut of approaching the 50% range. So, understand why Microsoft is cutting all support for everything that isn't absolutely current stuff -- they have already had to let the people go. Also understand why Win 9 has been delayed another year -- it won't be ready until then. :-? ======================== Given their tanking 14% market share, in a year where do you think MS will be? ======================== Hint: Last year Chromebooks finished the year at 10% of all laptops sold last year. Last quarter they were at 31% of all laptops sold (first half of 2014) |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/09/14 at 09:31:34 Let's roll us some MS employment numbers. If 18,000 jobs is 14% of the total work force, so 18,000 / .14 = 128,5000 total MS jobs 80,000 were contract workers, who are now on a 50% on/off schedule = effectively 40,000 "whole job" equivalents lost by this one cut alone So, 128,500 total jobs - 18,000 hard cut and 40,000 effective contract cut = 58,000 jobs cut or 45% of the total MS work force were just cut. ========================= A 45% manning reduction, now do you understand why everything older than last year is getting "non-supported" now? |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/09/14 at 11:31:03 So, I have laid out MS's slide into desperation, with them abruptly cutting their workforce by 45% and dropping all support for all older items. No doubt MS is starting to do the right things finally, but they really should have done them more gradually over a year ago. MS is at the point no one wants their product any more and some folks are concerned if they have a future past next year even using their current "total loss operation, no mobile revenue at all" business plan. ====================================== Here is the latest on Intel, with Intel just reshuffling all their old 22nm chip names and saying that they are "newly released chipsets". Everyone remembers the Intel mobile losses chart: http://recodetech.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/intel-mobile-chart.png?w=530&h=480 .... so here are the latest Intel analysis from the tech and the financial community (which still thinks that 14nm is on schedule and Sofia and Broxton will actually be here before years end instead of maybe late next year). One wonders what they would think if they knew about the current industry-wide set of 14nm production delays .... which will extend Intel's need for extreme loss leader pricing for another whole YEAR ..... ::) http://www.extremetech.com/computing/186498-pyrrhic-victory-intel-forces-its-way-into-mobile-but-might-destroy-itself-in-the-process Pyrrhic victory: Intel forces its way into mobile, but might destroy itself in the process Also note when reading the article: if Intel could actually do 14nm with only two passes they would be busy 'a doing it right now -- 14nm currently needs triple/quadruple passes and gives low low test yields on the resulting wafers. ====================================== What both Wintel companies really have to fear is quietly taking place already -- the savvy super investors like Warren Buffet are quietly selling off their Microsoft and Intel stock holdings as quickly as they can without causing any price ripples. When they have moved their actual holdings, then they will short the stocks on the futures market and then blast them publicly and loudly for their recent crazy actions causing a panic sale (yup, your basic stock manipulation scenario). Then, at the height of the furor and panic, they will buy again, starting a rally which will jack the stock price back up out of the gutter again. Screaming irrate American investors smarting from their losses will then insist that the crazy loss leader pricing and all the freebie software BS stop at once, which will seal the fate of both companies. You do remember MS investors suing MS last year due to Ballmer's lying to them and not reporting RT and Surface losses in the quarter in which they occurred, right? Big noise, big stock dip, big recovery -- super investors made a mint. Ballmer was gone within 220 days of that fiasco. RIP, Ballmer .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/10/14 at 07:17:37 The big prediction has now been made, now we start looking for confirmation of big stockholders quietly dumping their stock pending a stock meltdown panic a' coming .... How about this for a sorta confirmation ??? http://www.mideasttime.com/microsoft-director-sells-184618300-in-stock-msft/182201/ Microsoft Director Sells $184,618,300 in Stock (MSFT) Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Director William H. Gates III unloaded 4,145,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, July 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $44.54, for a total transaction of $184,618,300.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 313,847,107 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $13,978,750,146. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) traded down 1.19% during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $43.97. The stock had a trading volume of 29,653,196 shares. Microsoft has a 52 week low of $30.84 and a 52 week high of $45.71. So, when Bill Gates begins to quietly sell off some stock, do you think that has any meaning ???? |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/12/14 at 09:05:23 http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/broadwell-is-coming-a-look-at-intels-low-power-core-m-and-its-14nm-process/ http://www.anandtech.com/show/8355/intel-broadwell-architecture-preview http://liliputing.com/2014/08/intels-first-broadwell-chips-coming-tablets-notebooks-2014.html http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/smaller-CPU-package-640x360.png 50% smaller than WHAT ??? Oh, its obese predecessor of course -- even the new one is WAY WAY larger than any ARM chipset because ARM has everything integrated on the same smaller piece of silicone. No big huge daugherboard just holding only the CPU and GPU .... a daughterboard that has to be soldered on to a larger multi-layer motherboard with LOTS of other non-integrated components & bits and pieces. So, Intel starts talking some details about 14nm Broadwell (Intel Core M), which "is in production" but will not be released until late this year in limited amounts. What is known so far ..... only a 5% speed increase comes with the first new Broadwell chipset. This isn't very much at all. GPU is unchanged (and is not 14nm either) -- Intel still runs the two separately and combines them on a relatively large daughterboard unit, each of which has an energy nanny chipset that is on the main motherboard along with the separate GPS and Radio chipsets, etc etc. etc. All of these added bits and pieces suck both money and battery/energy that ARM simply doesn't have to do. 20% decrease in energy use (compared to the Intel predecessor) at the default low speed (with no energy savings at all in turbo mode). Once again, this is really just tweeks on the energy nanny chipset, not real inherent 14nm differences are coming through compared to the old 22nm process. Since Intel is currently 25% off the general ARM pace, that means the new 14nm chip isn't really going to be more energy efficient than ARM is currently at 28nm. First Broadwell chipset will be very expensive and will only go into large thin fanless laptops and large expensive tablets (Ultrabooks and Surface Pro 4). Intel admits to very low current yields on the 14nm process, but says they are getting better and will become acceptable sometime next year. Intel never says how many lithography passes they are doing just to make this chipset at all -- current estimates are 3 to four passes. Intel is now claiming to have two, not one 14nm lines now, with a third going in in 2015. This jives with past information about the original line being an old one that was burned up once & was refurbished while a brand new line was installed elsewhere. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/yield-trend-640x360.png OK, let's talk "advancement" A 5% speed improvement and 20% energy improvement on Intel's current position does not even get them caught up to ARM right now at 28nm. Example, a Tegra K1 is twice as energy efficient as the current Intel chipsets and is faster than all of them but the i5 and i7 chipsets. Tegra is due to go to A57 next year, which will increase processor power and the 20nm die shrink for that generation will further increase the energy lead exampled by the Tegra K1 over Intel's planned 14nm Broadwell right now. So Intel never gets winning (or even competitive) at any point in time in mobile space. If Broadwell Core M is the best Intel has to offer for the next 2 years, then Intel has dry fired yet again and will have to continue struggling and spraying red ink all over their mobile products. NO ON CHIP SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, A SEPARATE LARGE DAUGHTER BOARD HOLDING A SEPARATE CPU AND A SEPARATE GPU --- with all of the rest of the functions on separate chipsets on the larger more complex motherboard. Intel still hasn't learned how to make a mobile anything really, not yet anyway. Good news for the industry (if you believe the Intel propaganda anyway) is that first quarter of 2015 should see a roll out of 14nm product designs from the rest of the ARM crew (these will tend to be all the A57 64 bit designs that have been rumored of late). Remember, Intel is talking vapor still, we are still looking for the first 14nm product releases in a consumer mobile product. |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/14/14 at 09:38:10 So, Intel once again fires a big blast of brown far future vapor with much blowing of the trumpets and beating of the PR drums. "Why" is always the question that pops up when Intel pushes out a big "year plus out into the future" butt gas blast -- this generally only happens whenever they have to explain themselves to their stockholders. Still, SOME relevant information is released at that point in time. Here is the gist of what Intel will be able to do in volume sometime in 2015 at 14nm making a 5% speed upper and a 20% energy savings on their existing totally non-integrated design. A non-integrated design that is still too porky go go into a phone and can only go into larger tablets and laptops. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/smaller-CPU-package-640x360.png Remember, Intel is talking about a year out into the future with all this -- so let's compare it to what Samsung will be shipping inside of 30 days in their new mid-line phone, the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. THIS IS A MID-LINE SAMSUNG PRODUCT FOR NOW THROUGH CHRISTMAS, IT IS NOT THE LATEST AND GREATEST SAMSUNG SUPERPHONE OR SUPERCHIP (which is called the Exynos 5433 and will become product shipping & real exactly when Apple announces their new A8 chipset and the IPhone products in October) Samsung and Apple jest really love each other, can't you tell? http://liliputing.com/2014/08/samsung-launches-exynos-5430-octa-core-20nm-processor.html http://cdn.liliputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/samsung-exynos-5430_02.jpg "The Samsung Galaxy Alpha smartphone will be the first device powered by a 20nm Exynos 5430 processor when the new metal-clad phone ships in September. Samsung says the new chip will use about 25 percent less power than its predecessors, which helps justify the decision to use an 1,860mAh battery in the Galaxy Alpha instead of a larger 2,800 Ah battery like the one used in the Galaxy S5." 1860/2800 = 33% reduction in real battery size so I would say the 25% claimed power reduction is about right. Speed is claimed to be a little faster than the current primo 5422 chipset, so Samsung is now swinging a new mid-line phone that has all the performance of their old primo phone in a thinner cooler running package that only needs 33% less of a battery. Let's talk about package size a bit -- how big is the new 5430 chipset? You would think since it is fully integrated (has everything inside it, GPS, radio, etc etc it would bulk pretty large compared to just a simple daughter-board containing the CPU and GPU the way Intel has to do it, right? Nope, it is considerably smaller. This entirely integrated fully functional 8 CPU cores, 6 GPU cores, Radio and GPS already in there cell phone ready system on a chip that already OUT PERFORMS Intel's promised vapor specs for 2015 is a small <28mm square chipset that is already smaller than the Intel's vapor promised 14nm chip's 30mm length dimension. Here is a pic of the last gen Odroid board showing the actual Exynos 5422 chipset (the one which was die shrunk to make up this latest Samsung Octa 5430 chipset). The old 28nm Exynos 5422 measured ~28mm square as shown below in a real product, so the new 20nm Exynos 5430 die shrunk model will of course measure smaller accordingly. http://dn.odroid.com/homebackup/201407071202252748.jpg Note how full integration means there isn't much on that Odroid motherboard other than the connector jacks ????? Please remember, this is a fully operational PC motherboard, not a stripped down tablet or phone board. <28mm square for a fully integrated 8 core Exynos chipset right now vs a 30mm x 16.5mm daughterboard that requires all those additional main chipsets to make up a functioning unit of any kind. Intel's vapor plan for next year has to include spending all that red ink support money to pay for all the extra components that their vendors will still need to put on the larger motherboards make up a STILL slightly non-competitive Intel based product. Sorry Intel, you just told us yet again that you are still going to be 2 years behind the times in mobile even with your wonderful new 2015 vapor plan. LASTLY, INTEL'S LAST CLAIM TO "TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP" JUST WENT UNDER THE WHEELS OF THE REALITY BUS -- SAMSUNG AND QUALCOMM AND APPLE ARE NOW ALL CURRENTLY SHIPPING 20nm LITHOGRAPHY PRODUCTS AND INTEL IS STILL JUST SHIPPING 22nm. ;) ..... not to mention everything you sell in mobile costs you far far more to build than you can sell it for in the real world. Right now you approach 100% total loss on your mobile division and are well over the 100% loss position on some of your chipsets. Pay attention Intel, Tegra K1 is the first ARM chipset that is actually aimed at your bread and butter laptop/PC business. Samsung is coming out with one in a month or two, as are Qualcomm and (don't forget about them) Apple and their A8 and A9 64 bit generations which will hit your high end tablet and laptop businesses pretty hard. Americans like their Apple stuff, better than they like yours and Microsoft's stuff as a matter of fact. Once you see some more real ARM pc/laptop competition (and a general purpose ARM OS to support it) then you will have much more of a even playing field in the PC/laptop world. Then Intel will lose all the excess profitability in PC that currently funds their "total loss leader mode" in their mobile products. ;) |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/15/14 at 05:56:09 NO FAIR !!! scream all the dozen or so rabid Intel lovers out there .... compare a properly super-powerful ARM chipset for size when you talk about our beloved one year away from being really real vaporous Intel 14nm Broadwell chipset. Don't compare our not yet state of the art 14nm Broadwell against a similar performance pedestrian mundane actual real mid-line Samsung chipset and tell us our futuristic dream is fat and porky and underpowered ..... that isn't fair. You are butt hurting our feelings on purpose, you evil person, you. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/smaller-CPU-package-640x360.png YES, it is. Your future vaporous Intel chipset is underpowered and porky and non-integrated and it will be sold at a net loss and all of the other cruel butt hurtful but truthful things that have been said before. Get used to it, it only gets worse by the time it actually gets here because ARM is moving all the time and it is getting better and better and better while Intel slowly twiddles along with their non-integrated dry fires. :) OK, here is a really big fat 28 nm ARM chipset to compare the future 30mm x 16.5mm die size 14nm Broadwell against ..... This is the Tegra K1 at 197 cores -- this has got to be the biggest ARM chipset out there since it is 197 cores and is only done right now at 28nm. This gives all the advantage to Intel, right? I mean, really now -- just look at all those dozens of motherboard functions that are built right into that chipset -- it has got to be huge, right? http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/144267/tegra-k1-processor.jpg The 30mm long 16.5mm wide 14nm Broadwell has got to be a lot smaller than that giant huge monster of a fully integrated ARM chipset, right? Nope, the K1 is 23mm wide, 23mm tall -- and it totally kicks the future vaporous 14nm Broadwell's ass for performance in any real test that has been done so far (assuming 14nm Broadwell actually performs at 5% faster and 20% better battery life as Intel projects). As a matter of fact, it kicks the ass of some of today's Intel Core i3 laptop/desktop chipsets as well. Real world K1 gets twice the REAL run time in a Chromebook compared to the current Intel Bay Trail chipsets (even though it is run only at 28nm lithography level). [smiley=evil.gif] Sorry, Intel fan boys, the only thing bigger than an Intel 14nm Broadwell is another older even more porky non-integrated Intel chipset. Try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try try, try, try again .... |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/15/14 at 06:51:33 NO FAIR !!! scream again all the dozen or so rabid Intel lovers out there .... compare a properly super-powerfully strong per each individual CPU core ARM chipset for size when you talk about our beloved one year away from being really real vaporous Intel 14nm Broadwell chipset. Pick something with the same or better through put per core instead of overwhelming us with 197 cores ..... (and yeah, we know about all them dirty GPU compute sharing tricks that ARM is a' doing -- that is cheat'n, cheat'n real bad because we can't do that yet) OK, since you are a real glutton for punishment (and since it will hit before Christmas when the Apple A8 stuff comes out) I give you the 64 bit Denver cored Tegra K1 WITH ONLY TWO DENVER CORES THAT WILL STILL OUTDO YOUR 4 CORE FUTURE VAPOROUS 14nm BROADWELL. (please also note that if they decide they really need 4 Denver cores to do even more serious Core i5 level laptop/desktop evil to you Intel lovers later on down the road, they do have a 14nm design already laid out for a K1 quad core Denver already .....) Each individual Tegra Denver core is indeed stronger than an Intel Broadwell core. And smaller. And completely integrated with the rest of the chip, including GPU work sharing, etc. And they will hit reality by this Christmas which your Intel stuff will never do. 23mm x 23mm again, as shown, the same die size as the other K1. http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/K1-640x353.jpg .... and yes them whopping strong Denver cores can share compute tasks with all 192 of the Kepler graphics cores -- after all spreadsheets don't do much of a graphics work load you know and all them GPUs were just a' sitting there being all bored, so ARM decided to put them to work .... |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/15/14 at 19:50:59 NO FAIR !!! scream them frantic Intel fan boys "Compare us against Qualcomm so our future next year totally vaporous Broadwell 14nm two function CPU/GPU daughter-board can be smaller than ..... SOMETHING OUT THERE, PLEASE !!!!!" OK, We will compare you to an old 800 or 801 total system on a chip so you can be smaller than something out there. But remember two things please .... 1) The Qualcomm is a phone or a tablet on a single chip, all you have to add is a battery, speakers, screen, case, etc. Nobody has to pay to add a single thing to a Qualcomm chipset, it is all there, working perfectly and it is all pre-tuned exactly to the job you bought it to do. This is including the radio, the GPS, etc. etc. etc. 2) Qualcomm is going down to 20nm before Christmas just like everybody else (except you) and we don't know just how far that is going to shrink their 808 phone on a chip product. Qualcomm is also arguably the most successful chip integrator on the entire planet right now, something Intel really hasn't achieved yet at all in any real fashion whatsoever. But yes, your 2 function only 14nm Broadwell daughter board is smaller than a 28nm Qualcomm 800 or 801 fully integrated phone or tablet on a single chip. Feel all better now? :) ..... Qualcomm sells their stuff at a nice fat profit margin and their mobile division pays its own way and gives a nice dividend back to their stock holders every year. No red ink at Qualcomm ...... |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/18/14 at 11:40:55 NO FAIR !!!! PERSONAL FOUL !!!! RED CARD !!!! scream the Intel fanboys ..... Don't you dare show us a fully integrated AMD Mullens chipset when we don't have a fully integrated anything to show anybody just yet --- It isn't fair, we have totally destroyed AMD three times now and you are saying that they are BACK again !!!! http://techreport.com/r.x/mullins-firstlook/mullins-die-il.jpg Sorry dudes, butt-hurt you may be but you have to admit that new $199 Stream Laptop from HP might just tell the world that you guys really AREN'T any form of real low end technological leader really any more. Just some really out of date really really slow guys with deep deep pockets ..... |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/21/14 at 09:31:29 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/18/microsoft_security_sanity_buster/ The new, smaller, leaner, 45% people reduced Microsoft brings back a very old feature that we thought was discontinued forever --- ..... but no, it is all shiny and new again and has just been re-released for you to enjoy. ::) "On 12 August Microsoft released 40 updates for Internet Explorer, Windows 7 and Windows 8 Pro. Very shortly afterwards people began reporting their Windows machines bricking – while others glimpsed something they hadn't seen in a very long time: the Blue Screen of Death. Many thought BSODs were a thing of the past in this brave new Windows 7 (and 8) world. They were wrong. As ever, people were in the dark over what had gone wrong and why. "I have spent about 8 hours looking into this and I found out that the error occurs when I install any of the following updates: KB2976897, KB2982791 and KB2970228. I checked my laptop's ram and hard disk and they do not show any defects," wrote Frank on a Microsoft forum. Tempers were running high. "I wasted loads of time trying to get my PC to boot as mine boots in to a blue screen and it comes with error "win32k.sys," wrote 007L2Kill. One user unloaded: "I wish that Microsoft would check the updates before releasing them I suspect that these updates mentioned above are not compatible with windows 7 64bit which I am running." Susan Bradley, a Microsoft “valued professional community moderator”, shot back: "They do test, they just missed something here. Would you mind emailing me so we can get this officially investigated? The more samples/cases we have the faster we can get to the bottom of it." Hardly the words of comfort one expects from Microsoft. Judging by Bradley's comments, the software giant was as clueless about what had gone wrong as the hapless users." |
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Title: Re: Microsoft sues Samsung - Android Post by Oldfeller on 08/22/14 at 03:25:36 My wife just told me her home Windows laptop had locked up and was "doing something bad". I immediately looked at it of course (that's my job, dealing with computers) -- it was MS priority level pushing 63 updates at her machine to undo all the crap they did on the 12th of this month with their standard monthly update's big arsed disaster. Once the 63 updates were in the machine, it immediately priority asked for 47 associated file updates to associated files that were required to support the new files. (going backwards is never clean or easy in MS's world). Microsoft is backtracking like two full levels of security updates, replacing I would guess about 1/3 of the total active windows installation in the process between the primary push and the associated files requirements. ::) This mess has already taken her machine out of use for two solid hours so far at the Time Warner standard package download speeds, with a Malwarebytes scan and a defrag still yet to go when MS finishes getting all their little bits and pieces in proper order. I count I started a Linux Mint update on my machine at the same time as my wife's Priority Windows Update (while it was still downloading files) just to compare the two. I was done with the Linux Mint update inside 2 minutes and it required no reboot and no defrag -- it just downloaded and installed the handful of new files and said "Done". ================ On the Windows machine 409 files were fragmented by this action, a mass of files like I said of about 1/3 of the operating system files. Just to defragment the system after the full update set had landed took 16 minutes and the Malwarebytes scan when it was all MS happy took 13 minutes to complete by itself (and it found 4 dodgy items when I did the scan). MS is simply an overly complex pain in the butt to take care of -- no wonder IT departments the world over absolutely love them Chromebooks. ;) |
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