Swedish Television Rumored to Expose Microsoft’s Mojave Campaign
Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 08/25/2008 - 04:15.
While everyone is talking about the fact that Jerry Sienfled has signed up to pitch Microsoft Vista it is worth noting another ad campaign that Microsoft launched last week entitled the “Mojave Experiment.” This type of advertising goes back ages and is generally used to show people that they will actually like something that they thought they disliked. In other words Microsoft feels that Vista has a bad rap due to a lot of “FUD” in the market about Vista’s poor performance, lack of security, difficulty to use, etc.
Hmmm… That sounds strangely familiar. No wonder, according to Microsoft, only 1% of the respondents were Linux users.
This is hardly a new concept in advertising. Just this year we have already seen two campaigns from companies with products in a similar situation to Microsoft Vista. Pizza Hut launched their
Zemlin's rug being pulled by instant-on machine language OS ?
While Linux generic drivers were good for older computers; the hardware improvements with USB will obsolete many Linux foundation codes(Scsi for one).
Maybe its not time to compete with Microsoft, but to re-examine Linux codes. Bloated straight forward Vista can be shrunk. Bloated Linux codes(files) were re-used too often to be shrunk without bugs created.
We are in the process of redesigning hardware architecture. All operating systems are changing to strip down to bare necessities. Bare bone computers will be just a cpu with USB ports? Computer on a chip(1998 with laser driven fiberoptics bus to other chips), will soon lead to wafer scale computers networked internally by radio channel buses and externally by copper network with repeaters(We already used cryogenically cooled amplifiers since 1972; we have been using wafer scaled stacked computer systems since 2002/2007).
USB devices will have all the firmware, making udev obsolete? Where will Linux 4.5 million lines of codes for the kernels be, replaced by embedded machine language hardware functions? All operating system is hardwired in the cpu thru USB bus. Only Debian apps will remain?