2013年12月12日 星期四

SKU-morphism 單品項管理單位-變形概念


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There's skeuomorphism. And then there's SKU-morphism -- as in a few key next-generation Windows SKUs, which may morph before they debut.

As I've blogged previously, while Microsoft is moving toward a "One Windows" vision, that vision is more along the lines of one Windows core, but multiple SKUs, or versions, according to my contacts.

This new strategy doesn't necessarily mean there will be a different SKU for every kind of Windows form factor out there. Instead, as Microsoft moves forward with its "Threshold" Windows wave, there might be just a few Windows SKUs built on top of a common Windows foundation, I'm hearing from my contacts.

It's definitely still early days for Threshold, which is supposedly slated to begin arriving around Spring 2015. Given all the management changes at Microsoft, things could change. But here's supposedly what the Softies are thinking at this point.

With Threshold, my sources say, there could be three primary SKUs: A "modern" consumer SKU; a traditional/PC SKU; and a traditional enterprise SKU.



解釋

SKU-morphism  單品項管理單位-變形概念。
SKU (Stocking Keeping Unit) 源自物流管理的方法。也就是以商品庫存的屬性組合(可以包括品牌、型號、配、等級、花色、包裝容量、單位、生產日期、保質期、用途、價格、產地等)為最小單位,以便於商品採購、銷售、物流管理、財務管理以及POS(電腦銷售點管理系統)與MIS(管理資訊系統)。
morphism 是變形的概念。在此,作者取自前述的詞藻 "skeuo-morphism" 的後半部。實際上,作者主要是闡述:微軟將來會在某個相同的基礎上建構出三種不同的Windows版本,如同商品的SKU的不同屬性組合,來迎合不同的使用者:"現代"、"傳統PC"、"傳統企業"用戶。(參考


key 主要的,在此當形容詞。

morph  (動詞)變形;改變。

debut  (動詞)登場 。

blog  (動詞)在部落格寫文章。

strategy  策略。

supposedly  據推測;一般相信;傳聞上。

Given 假如;假定。在此是說:如果整個微軟的管理有變動的話,前述的規劃將可能改變。

Softies  軟體工程師們。

Threshold  原意是 "門檻" 。在此是指微軟下一版的代號(codename)。

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