Okay, this was inspired by something I saw on Engadget.

If someone came to you tomorrow, and gave you Microsoft, giving you 51% of the shares, and granting you full power over all decisions, would would you do.

Once a a person or two replies, I'll drop my "Ultimate Plan" on you guys.

This post was last modified: 07-01-2008 11:46 AM by Kyle.

hmm..

I think announce that Windows 7 will not have many new featues, aside from a new UI. That the major change will be the code, completely striped down, so it's faster and more reliable. I would also tell everyone to focus on Live Mesh, as I think it's important. Also, look into aquiring Mozilla, so that they could have a Open Source browser, which would be supported by a big company.

Ultimate Plan:

Firstly, I'd take complete ultimate oversight of the OS Development. Then, I'd split the OS Line into two main groupings, with the same base features.

Base features included in both OS':
MinWin Kernel, WinFS, DX10, Aero Glass, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, .Net 3.0, and Windows Live Messenger.

"Traditional" OS
Will be based upon Windows Xp, with the same base features. It will include the old style taskbar, start menu, control panel, and Explorer interfaces. It will be compatible with more old hardware, as XP was, supporting Video Cards as far back as Radeon 7000 and Geforce 2 Series (Though Radeon 9XXX, or Geforce 5XXX with 128 MB VRAM will be required for Aero Glass.) It would come standard with a "basic" version of Windows Office, the only programs available being Word (Which would replace "wordpad") and Powerpoint.


"Professional" OS
Would be totally new code. It would include a new UI, doing away with the the taskbar in favour of a different base navigation system. It would support only DirectX 10 Hardware, and have touch capabilities out of the box. It would NOT support any legacy hardware. It would include a full version of Microsoft Office Enterprise, and both Halo and Halo 2 as base install games. As for Gaming, when games start, the OS would go into a sort of "sleep" mode, allowing the game to take over as the primary process. As for older games, a virtual machine with a light, modified version of Windows 98SE would be included, called "Windows Legacy", which will allow for older games to run flawlessly.

Pricing:
Traditional: $100
Professional: $120
Together: $200
They would be able to be simultaneously installed through dual booting, and have a maximum of 5 installs per license key. (Each version would get its own key)


Things neither OS would come with: Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger (The piece of crap one), WGA, Movie Maker, and Picture Viewer (The Vista one, not picture and fax viewer).


Other than that, it would be a code refresh to all products, weeding out the useless and bad code.

Well, I'm not sure that Microsoft would be allowed to install "M" rated games with the OS.\

2: Vista will run on any GPU, even my laptop's 8MB RAGE, as it just turns of AERO, so it would basically be the same as Win Vista for that.

3: I don't want wordpad removed, as I it's nice and simple for editing .mysql and .php files.

4: I use WMP and Movie Maker, so I would want those avaliable, at least for download. Windows Live Messenger and Windows Photo Gallery should be download able from the Windows Live suite.

5: I agree, weed out all the code, and you won't have any weird code interacting with other code, causing crashes.

Yeah, the WMP, WPG, and WMM would be downloadable from the website.

The games would be installed, and controlled. You'd need an admin account to play them. (So kids couldn't unless allowed one)

Wordpad is the target of 12% of windows Viruses. It should go.

Vista will run on any GPU, but I think that's just retarded, tbh.

Mine is simple; I would sell my shares and retire.

Market strategy:
Number 1:I would start buying google,yahoo,EA and Ubisoft...If i wouldn't be able to buy them in just one offer,i would buy them even one stock after one stock.Basically they woulld continue to live on as brands,such as ati did.

Number 2:I would call every exorcist from vatican and purge all the evil ghosts from Ea(more) and the rest(less),Ballmer would be locked in 20 days near the st. Peter tomb with only a small window for praying,food and water...

Number 3:I would change the location to Križevci-Croatia(my hometown),so the antitrust regulatory attention won't be so hard on us...

Number 4:I would appoint my best friends at high positions.

Number 5:Fire Ballmer(stocks rise 50%).

Windows strategy:

Number 1:I would add a ''Moderator'' account to coexist between the administrator and standard user

Number 2:The microsoft made games before 2000 and after 1990 would be installed together with the games like solitaire...

Number 3:I would make a completely new file system and kernel since even the ntfs updated with winfs is starting to look average to outdated.The file system would be out till 2015.

Number 4:windows would be released on a 3+1 release year cycle the 3 stands for the strategy they will start with windows 7 and the +1 stands for a mayor facelift of the OS,they did this already with the 2000/xp combination as xp was just a facelift for 2000,and as nvidia g90 was just a refined version of the g80...

Number 5:The new kkernel would support 128 bits,since at that time 128 bits-would already be a real possibility.

Number 6:I would found a windows feature panel team,a tema that would only be assigned to add more utilities to windows,the more the merrier,like let's say that you would lose yourself just at the first look of the control panel.And no this team would not be used to update security/stability issues and so on,this team would be fully concentrated just on making them.

Number 7:There would be very few information leaks,actually,just as few as there are right now.

Number 8:The first coding on every new version would be started 6 years before hitting the market,with the seventh year being ''the planning year'',except for the ''facelift version on which the development would start 2 years before hitting the shelves(so if you have read number 4 in the windows strategy section at some points in time there would be even 4 windows Os-es in production.

Number 9:Windows would have an ''override'' function like enterprise in star trek.

Company management strategy:

Number 1:As you can see I would utilize the company to go at Full production + full strength,since having a share of 90% of the market simply is not enough,we must squeeze out at least some 98% or 100% if possible.

Other strategyes:

Number 1:I would invade the mac market,and make apple go bankrupt,since Steve is evil :na:

Number 2:I would start a project to make a presence of at least 10% in the first year in the cpu,and in the gpu market.

Number 3:I would sell the xbox to a powerful company,and partner myself with that company,Under the table i would also partner myself with another company that would promise me to build a mighty console just to make the market race hotter,on that way we would have at the same time 4 very serious consoles to choose:The sony ps4,the xbox720,nintendo wii2,and the new one.

Number 4:I would buy rockstar games to make the most well rounded off life simulation,with a huge number of minigames.The game would be under development for 6 years,and the developers would closely coexist with our directx development team so it won't lack on graphics.

Number 5:I would buy a company named The game creators and all their products(Fps creator,Fps creator x10,dark basic...).

Number 6:I would appoint around 30000 people(mostly developers),worldwide,so we could have the production quantity for everything i have already mentioned here...

Number 7:I would do a major restructuring of the company.

Number 8:I would crush the idea of cloud computing(i don't wan't to play games that are worse than crysis in the year of 2015...).

Number 9:Windows 7 would be available in 32 bit only for the home basic version.

Number 10:I would tag all the microsoft software before windows 2000 as abandonware,and that software would as of then be free to download.

Number 11:I would make a revolutionary anti pirate software,but not a ret%rded one like starforce...

Number 12:In2020 i would sell all my stocks and retire from microsoft,since by then the stocks would have already be by 1000% more than before.

Oooh man this topic is so great for me,i have got so much ideas and such a short life...

This post was last modified: 07-17-2008 06:37 PM by Chaoswarrior.

So many of those would be impossibly unachievable, even if the top 15 richest people in the world gave you all of their money...

But you sure do have an imagination =D

which ones for instance???I think microsoft has a huge capacity,over 100 000 000 000 dollars...

ooh,and tell me which ones do you like the most...

This post was last modified: 07-18-2008 06:46 PM by Chaoswarrior.

I would release a OS Every five years!