Android competition complaint
Enraged Android
If the operating system market is generally a hostile and highly competitive market, what can we say about the mobile operating system market? That everything is intensified more. No doubt about it. And if you still do not believe in this statement, the information that I will now discuss them aware of the degree of competition that makes the world of OS for smartphones.
As you know Android is an operating system created by the people at Google are the following characteristics: it is a concept designed for mobile use and features an open source enables users to act as developers and transformers system used.
For this reason, and a large advertising campaign, no doubt-that Android managed to position itself in the most privileged in smartphone operating systems.
Since its debut in 2008, Android has grown to become the most popular operating system in the world for "smartphones" with a market share of 48%, according to the second quarter of the consulting firm Canalys.
"More than 550,000 Android devices are activated every day through a network of 39 manufacturers and 231 distributors," said the manager of Google.
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MS-DOS and 30 years
MS-DOS
In terms of innovation and technological development there is a category that has a particular accent: the progress. This is due to the temporary array which is anchored in the idea of technique and technology. We refer, of course, the continuous matrix, ascending and linear time for understanding the technique as a relative term, functional, relational, which is never still and never stops moving. This movement has a meaning, with guidance. And the horizon is the future, where we imagine improved, fulfilled, happy.
In this context it may be off screen something like the word "past" or the word "been." What interest have been in a discussion about innovation, new, on what does not imitate any model past? Clearly, in the midst of this discussion the past only with the face may appear sentimental, with the figure of what once was and never will be.
This is now the debate on the anniversary of MS-DOS, which has cumplico 30 years.
Opeartivo system was however not created exactly 30 years ago, is celebrated for what it is rather the birth of a trademark, the acquisition by Microsoft for an operating system that had been written by your program under another name .
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OCU Microsoft for monopolistic complaint
Microsoft in the crosshairs
When one speaks of a monopoly and culture tend to think of as traditional areas such as cinema, Hollywood's major corporations, the mass media, within which are the giants who communicate via newspapers, radio stations, TV channels and so on. That's called for many years, "cultural industry". The idea of the culture industry was a paradoxical identity, anchored in what is often seen as an oxymoron. For this kind of ideas are sought perience the process of subsumption of culture by private capital. Ownership in few hands of the production and dissemination of cultural messages brought many people to emit cries of outrage by a process to destroy the real danger cultural democracy.
In this case we will refer to this term compound, paradoxical, torn, but to think a different field of culture, not so traditional: the field of operating systems. Why do we say that belongs to the world of culture? Since operating systems are languages with grammars full of codes, implemented, worldview enable users to use them.
Hence, if we must speak of monopoly and culture in this area, we can not but mention the paradigmatic case of Microsoft, and the spurious link that computer manufacturers have with the company. In recent days, the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) has decided to address the National Competition Commission to investigate Microsoft and see if there is any practice by the company contrary to the rules of competition . Read more
New Visual Studio, Windows 8
Visual Studio
Users around the world are waiting for an operating system in its latest version promises to answer and satisfy many of the claims so far had been going on from outside and from within Microsoft, we mean, of course at Windows 8. The same has a release date set for April next year, but until then no one can wait and that is why Microsoft releases every so often a tiny packet of information, for bloggers and journalists to fill the Comment mouth and it is believed, finally, a snowball informative. The rumor, above all things.
In this case, it happens that the rumor was born on the side of what many think is the best embodiment of the next Windows 8: the empowerment of a sort of open code so users with some programming languages, management and development, they can also create applications for tablets.
This openness to co-creation, this figure of cooperation, Microsoft takes a plane that had never before entered, and surely will yield much fruit. Now, the question that many of us do is: when will launch this tool?
According to analysts, it is possible that just as happened with Windows Phone 7, is likely to put all the tools available that allow such uses of language, and later launched the entire operating system. Read more
Does Microsoft with Linux?
Microsoft and Linux
The paradoxes of history that makes the enemies are seen as infinite, often working in agreement, and that those who are taken as friends unparalleled adopt strategies that place them at opposite paths. This is the case with Microsoft and Linux, two enemies close if any in the world of software and operating systems. Well as you know Microsoft users often prefer to take Linux as strange freaks who can not understand. And, in turn, Linux users adopt the flag of their environment as if it were a political identity, and fighting for the open source campaign like a liberating oppressed peoples.
However, things are not so simple. As mentioned, the extremes meet. And in this case we can say on the subject of the agreement that Microsoft has taken shape with Linux, working collaboratively on a new open source. One might wonder how can two economic enemies as strong as these two giants together to gain entry into the Linux kernel code.
And the answer must be provided, sadly, from the standpoint of individual interests. None of cooperative masters. No. Here is what is giving priority to the pursuit of their own profitability. Is that Microsoft has an end goal in this collaboration: making use Linux as a lure for people who hate Microsoft, so as to expand their target customers. Read more
2015: Unification of Microsoft platforms
Much has been written about the future of humanity.
Much saliva has been spent in discussing the alleged catastrophe hit the planet in 2012.
Predictions of all kinds, oracles are presented with a quasi-apodictic structure, among others, have generated a kind of hysteria a little less intense than that prevailing on the eve of the new millennium ten years ago.
But leaving aside these questions of futurology, we think about the future of operating systems beyond 2012. In this case we want to talk about Microsoft and its possible paths in the coming years. One of the rumors that every day is taking more and more truth value is the one who speaks of a trend towards the unification of opertivo system platforms most famous in the world.
According to experts, in 2015 Windows users will be able to use the operating system platforms as diverse as desktop PCs, tablets, smartphones, and even Xbox consoles. Clearly this would have a major impact on the subjectivities of Microsoft customers. Why? Because it would make it easier to transfer from one screen to another, without too much effort in the process of translation.
The legitimate question many are asking is: well, we have the same operating system for different media, now: what will happen to the interface? Read more
Disney to Microsoft: Windows 8 advertising
Windows 8
In our day no one can deny that if there is a way to get an achievement in the world economy, she can not turn your back on the progress of knowledge marketers. Marketing and advertising have now established itself in the heart of strategies for product placement in the market wisely.
This is explained by progressive value that is acquiring the image in contemporary societies. Many authors talk about it. Words such as "society of spectacle", "company image", etc.., We say that today reality and fiction, the essence and appearance, are no longer two terms of an adversarial relationship, but rather hybridization elements seem not enable any distinction. The decline of the limits to the distinctions, or eclecticism, are the most characteristic phenomena of cultural innovations of our day.
And the economy is not exempt from it. Thus, Microsoft has hired a former employee of Disney, the famous Jay Victor, to design the advertising campaign in which Microsoft managed to get to the perceptions of consumers to their latest product: Windows 8.
As discussed more sources close to the company, had been a first attempt to put Windows 8 into the television series Family Guy. Read more
No more support for Office XP and Windows Vista SP1
Office View
In the current state of the market for operating systems and applications, there is a maxim that operates in all markets that are worthy of being free: users / customers are always right. What does this mean? For the operators offer daily updated is tied to the vagaries of consumer demand, and could never be something of a determination by the offer to the needs of users. Instead, users have as wide a degree of freedom, which can make and unmake their interests and tastes momentary.
Now, when we observe how this maxim applies in specific cases, we can see that reality is far away from the ideal standard. And this we can see in the case of Microsoft's decision to terminate, effective July 12, the support service of Office XP and Windows Vista SP1. Why? Since this determination, which is expressed is how the rhythms imposed economic agents agree about the intentions and wishes of users.
Because what matters are the consequences of actions. If you complete the "extended support" that necessarily requires users to stop using "old" version to purchase new upgrades. So Microsoft will ensure the level of profitability and decisive operates in the temporality of the market.
Then we can ask: is the customer always right?
¿Monopoly? Windows XP in business
Windows XP
In recent years, many analysts of the current situation of the market for operating systems have shown that the central and monopoly that Microsoft had been for several years and had managed to maintain over time, there was no more . The progressive position of IOS, the birth of several open source Linux distributions, among others, had achieved what seemed so far impossible to unseat the "giant".
However, this type of analysis suffers from something. In their enthusiasm for a market that actually does not have hegemonic positions and monopolistic agents, unaware of the actual existence of these, and are quick to diagnose the power of new agents in actual practice, only manage to make a slight shadow who stands as the axis of evil.
So a correct analysis would be one who can stay within the strict limits of reality, then claiming realism as most appropriate strategy for effective knowledge of the current state of the operating system market.
That realism would have to recognize, for example, the fundamental position that has Windows XP in the field of business, when what it is desktop computers. According to an analysis worthy of respect published a few days, 59.9% of computers in business are governed by this version of Windows. Read more
New Zorin OS 5
Zorin OS 5
As you may know, Zorin OS is a GNU / Linux based on Ubuntu and original main objective was to make migration from Windows to novice users a simple event and away from any kind of trauma. Changes is emphatic, wherever they occur, tend to question the certainties that we held until then. Fear of change is just the reaction to these risks. Zorin OS The idea was from the beginning, encourage users to make changes and migration, naturally in favor of Linux.
Well, a few days ago that has released a new version Zorin OS: Zorin OS 5. And while nobody knew long ago much of what was brewing in Zorin, we can now see why there was no news to date. The intention was to raise expectations from the perspective of the mole, who works in a low and breaks without warning in the present.
And while so far we are able to access the Core version (free) and Ultimate (surcharge), ie, the supply is not very diversified, we managed to say a few words on what until now can be used . Before that, it's important to say that the next versions (Zorin OS 5 Lite, Educational, Business, Multimedia and Gaming) will appear in the coming weeks.
If we were to summarize the news, we could say that providing the user experience (target maximum of this distribution) is carried out from the interface. Read more
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