Microsoft is archaic, behind the times, and they don't think outside the box. All they can see is what's in front of them, and refuse to conceptualize the possibilities that exist out there in changing their approach. This comment by Craig Mundie, the global chief research and technology officer for Microsoft, is an example of why we don't use PCs, or the dreaded Windows program, in our household.
"I don't know whether the big screen tablet pad category is going to remain with us or not," he said, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
With executives like this in charge at Microsoft, no wonder why the company's having trouble getting into the tablet market. Even though Bill Gates, ten years ago, said that tablets would become the most popular form of PC in America. With contradictory opinions going on, with this executive's comments contradicting his boss's, why should anyone buy a tablet product from Microsoft?
A few months ago, Microsoft was going to come to the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show with tablets aimed at the iPad. That never happened. Microsoft didn't show up with any tablet competition towards the iPad. Instead, what the CES attendees got was this:
Microsoft's biggest news was that the next version of Windows would run on the style of cell phone chips that power the iPad and other tablets today. It proved it with a series of demonstrations on half-built computers; on the monitors hooked up to those machines, the software was indistinguishable from the current Windows 7.
Microsoft's missing tablet served as a reminder that the world's largest software maker remains years from a serious entry into this new category of devices. It also raised more doubts about whether Microsoft Corp. will ever be able to grab a meaningful piece of this fast-growing segment. If it can't, Microsoft Corp.'s dominance of personal computers may become increasingly irrelevant as people embrace ever-sleeker portable devices.
No wonder why Craig Mundie is bashing the iPad and the future of tablets. Microsoft can't even get its act together to produce a tablet, much less create an operating system that doesn't constantly crash and get numerous viruses. This is why my household is an Apple household. We've got two Macbooks, an Apple TV, and an iPad. I'm waiting on my iPad 2 for my birthday in August, and will be making great use of it to supplant my iPhone.