Don’t Get Investment Advice From Paul Thurrott
ShareTom Merritt and Windows expert Paul Thurrott were talking on Windows Weekly about the last time MSFT split. Paul Thurrott said it’s split “at least once in the last twelve months.” Actually, the last split was February, 2003.
From the July 30 episode of Windows Weekly:
Tom Merritt: When’s the last time they (MSFT) split?
Paul Thurrott:
“Actually they do split the stock fairly regularly. In fact, I want to say they’ve done it at least once in the last twelve months. They are pretty good about that kind of stuff……And I think that, you know, I think they have to be, just to retain whatever investors they have and so forth. But yeah, the stock price is not a strength of Microsoft.”
I love listening to Thurrott’s show. He won’t let you bash Microsoft but it’s ok if he does. He likes Apple products but has a tough time admitting it. The regular host, Leo Laporte, often brings up Apple and you can feel Paul’s frustration build. If you haven’t listened to any of Leo Laporte’s podcasts you should. He gets great guests and doesn’t let discussions run off the rails.
31. July 2010 at 7:58 pm :
Hahahaha!
You were being sarcastic, weren’t you, about Leo keeping the discussions on topic?
Man, he is terrible at running a show that doesn’t go down rabbit trails willy nilly! I mean the first 15-20 minutes are usually him BS”ing with the guests about their personal lives and in jokes and inside-baseball subjects, then sometimes he actually gets to the subject at hand….
I don’t mind some of the banter, that’s part of the enjoyment of the personality that comes through a podcast instead of a webpage, but damn he jabbers on and on himself and lets the guests do the same.
If you want to recommend a great podcast, especially about Macs, check out the MacGeekGab, especially consider the premium subscription which nets an extra 2 a month….they banter a little, maybe a rant here and there, and the rest of the time, it’s all Mac, all the time! It’s great!
Leo’s MacBreak Weekly is usually iPhone-Weeky, and Mac-weakly! I counted the topics one time, and there were 10 different topics, and all of 1 was Mac-centric. The rest were Windows(!) related, cloud-specific, or iPhone only topics.
The Windows Weekly netcast sometimes spends waaaaay too much time on Paul’s Xboc exploits, or Leo’s giving him a hard time about Apple….it’s hardly worth a listen for info on Windows or Microsoft topics.
And his Google netcast is starting to off the rails too, much to my regret. I was hoping for more tech info and tips, and discussion, about the topics, but his style is starting to shine through.
Leo is most often rambling on and on, thinking he is still on the radio and has to fill time, I guess….I don’t know, maybe he used to be good at hosting, but of late, he’s not.
Try MacGeekGab, it’s worth it!
1. August 2010 at 6:03 pm :
I realize this is a Mac oriented site, but people need to know that Thurrott is a complete jerk. So in love with himself and so incredibly sure that he’s the only one who gets it.
Saying that he’s the only one who’s allowed to slam Microsoft is an understatement. He’s always saying stuff like “I’m going to hit someone if…” — it’s very clear that he’s extremely frustrated.
That same show you’re talking about - the episode was called Child-like Wonder because he said only someone with child-like wonder would be interested in an iPad. He changes his mind about it every five minutes.
Bottom line, he’s a jerk. A frustrated jerk. I don’t know why Leo gives him the show.
2. August 2010 at 12:47 am :
More on Thurrot from windows i.t. pro magazine:
“The reason the iPad has succeeded is twofold. First, it’s from Apple, and it doesn’t have to make any sense because customers will buy just about anything this company makes, allowing them to fix issues and fill in the functional gaps over time.”
and
“there is no handwriting or voice recognition on an iPad. You use your fingers. It’s like finger painting instead of oil painting—or “the dumbening” as I call it.”
2. August 2010 at 6:53 pm :
Couldn’t agree more about Thurrott, the guy is a major tool. He clearly thinks opinion pieces mean blindly bash the competition. Like look at this, you can see how frustrated he is !
“And this insular little company
simply can’t handle too many different projects at once, and thus
can’t innovate at the heady pace for which many blindly give it
credit. Why? Because if Apple really “got” multi-touch, it wouldn’t
make users of its palatial 27″ iMac touch a tiny trackpad, it would
simply add multi-touch support to the screen and to the underlying OS.
Think about it. With an iPhone, the tactile response is direct. But
second-class Mac citizens have to do the mental gymnastics to figure
out the correlation between gestures on the trackpad and events
happening onscreen. So don’t even try to tell me Apple gives a damn
about the Mac market anymore. The company has clearly stopped trying.
Unless of course by “trying” you mean “trying to fleece their
buy-anything customers with yet another pointless doo-dad.” That it
still does.”
Yeah Paul, I’d rather drag my finger across a massive - “palatial” as you call it - display instead of a smaller pad.
And how does this existence of this pad anger you so much? Would you prefer if there were less choices? One size fits all?
Thurrott’s arguments are schizophrenic. The guy has gone over the edge.