Battle of the Media Ecosystems: Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft 79
bsk_cw writes "This article takes a long look at four major consumer tech ecosystems — Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft — and examine how well (or badly) they're serving up their media. The authors talk about how each company approaches gaming, music, video, books, etc., and how each integrates all its parts into some kind of whole. The conclusion? That none of the four can be said to be the best in all things, but they're certainly trying."
Microsoft's idea of ecosystem (Score:5, Funny)
A desktop is a large tablet that you often touch.
A tablet is a device that runs an operating system and apps developed with desktops in mind
Windows RT is a Windows operating system that does not run programs built for Windows; even those developed on Windows by Microsoft
On a desktop operating system you can close the desktop and that is the normal mode of operating the desktop computer
As clear and delineated as Ballmer's press mutterings and utterings.