The Internet - The first Worldwide Tool of Unification ("The End of History")

" ... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

" ... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy. For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history?... " Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“…5 - Integrity That May Surprise…

Have you seen innovation and invention in the past decade that required thinking out of the box of an old reality? Indeed, you have. I can't tell you what's coming, because you haven't thought of it yet! But the potentials of it are looming large. Let me give you an example, Let us say that 20 years ago, you predicted that there would be something called the Internet on a device you don't really have yet using technology that you can't imagine. You will have full libraries, buildings filled with books, in your hand - a worldwide encyclopedia of everything knowable, with the ability to look it up instantly! Not only that, but that look-up service isn't going to cost a penny! You can call friends and see them on a video screen, and it won't cost a penny! No matter how long you use this service and to what depth you use it, the service itself will be free.

Now, anyone listening to you back then would perhaps have said, "Even if we can believe the technological part, which we think is impossible, everything costs something. There has to be a charge for it! Otherwise, how would they stay in business?" The answer is this: With new invention comes new paradigms of business. You don't know what you don't know, so don't decide in advance what you think is coming based on an old energy world. ..."
(Subjects: Who/What is Kryon ?, Egypt Uprising, Iran/Persia Uprising, Peace in Middle East without Israel actively involved, Muhammad, "Conceptual" Youth Revolution, "Conceptual" Managed Business, Internet, Social Media, News Media, Google, Bankers, Global Unity,..... etc.)


German anti-hate speech group counters Facebook trolls

German anti-hate speech group counters Facebook trolls
Logo No Hate Speech Movement

Bundestag passes law to fine social media companies for not deleting hate speech

Honouring computing’s 1843 visionary, Lady Ada Lovelace. (Design of doodle by Kevin Laughlin)

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Windows 8 launch a 'defining moment' for Microsoft's Steve Ballmer

Touchscreen-ready version of operating system seen as vital to move Microsoft away from fading PC market – and for chief executive's future

guardian.co.uk, Juliette Garside, Friday 26 October 2012

Steve Ballmer speaks at the launch of Windows 8 in New York. Photograph:
Mario Tama/Getty Images

Microsoft has unveiled Windows 8, a radical reinvention of the world's best-selling computer operating system for the touchscreen age, in what many believe could be chief executive Steven Ballmer's last stand.

A 32-year Microsoft veteran and the company's second largest shareholder after Bill Gates, Ballmer has bet his $235bn (£145bn) business on an operating system intended to give the titan of the already fading PC era a future on today's smartphones and tablets. At a launch event in New York on Thursday night, he promised a "re-imagined" software experience that "shatters perceptions of what a PC really is".

Windows 8 will be a boost for PCs, Microsoft believes, rather than accelerating the change that is seeing them replaced by the growing number of mobile devices.

The success of the iPhone saw Apple overtake Microsoft as the world's largest technology company two years ago, but Microsoft remains more valuable than Google, whose Android operating system dominates the smartphone market. It also has $67bn in cash reserves with which to continue its fight to remain relevant.

The showcase device of the biggest Windows relaunch in 17 years – a high-end tablet computer called Surface which goes on sale today – has already received the thumbs down from influential reviewers. While Microsoft can afford to keep trying, critics believe Windows 8 represents Ballmer's last chance to remain at the helm.

"This is going to be his defining moment," said technology industry analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy. "Ballmer's legacy will be looked at as what he did or didn't do with Windows 8. If Windows 8 is not a success, a lot of people will be looking for Microsoft to make a change at the CEO level."

The domestic desktop computer is languishing, with consumers delaying upgrades as they save their cash for smartphones and iPads. Microsoft software operates 95% of PCs, but worldwide sales of those machines fell 8% in the last quarter.

Forrester analyst Frank Gillett has said that if you combined the numbers for PCs, smartphones and tablets, Microsoft accounted for nearly 70% of unit sales in 2008, but just 30% this year.

He predicted: "Windows 8 is a make-or-break product launch for Microsoft. After a slow start in 2013, Windows 8 will take hold in 2014, keeping Microsoft relevant and the master of the PC market, but simply a contender in tablets, and a distant third in smartphones."

With a brightly coloured interface composed of "tiles", each representing an app, Windows 8 has been praised as fast, fluid and fun to use. Updates, like a change in the weather, or a friend's Facebook comments, feed through to the tiles which represent them, creating a dynamic, eye-catching home screen.

But critics say it is only a skin, with the old Windows software underneath. To operate certain features such as word processing, or even to change the date, users must leave the tiles interface and are returned to the world of Windows 7.

"You can't fault them for what they've done to try to prepare for this moment," said analyst Mark Moerdler at broker Sanford C Bernstein. "They've shown themselves to be organically innovative. But if they fail now it becomes even more difficult for them to gain mind share."

Ballmer, now 56, has spent his entire working life at Microsoft, joining as one of its first 30 employees after meeting Gates at Harvard and finally succeeding him as chief executive in January 2000.

Since then Microsoft's annual revenue has nearly quadrupled to $74bn and highlights of his tenure have included the successful Xbox 360 games console. But Ballmer has been slow to respond to technology shifts and has allowed Apple and Google to steal a march in mobile computing and search.

Described by Forbes magazine as the "worst CEO of a publicly traded company today", Ballmer has done enough with Windows 8 to keep the jury at bay – but the clock is ticking.

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