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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 21 2012 @ 02:24 PM EDT |
The day MS buys HP or Nokia to become a "hardware company" (actually
MS already produce hardware :p), is the day when they can kiss all their OEM
customers goodbye.
I think what MS would more likely do is wait until these companies go almost
bankrupt and sign a deal where MS will buy up the patents for a relatively small
sum, pass most of it to yet another patent troll to do the dirty job, while
keeping the strategic patents for themselves to gain more licensees for their
products. In the meantime, MS will continue to fail in the market with some of
their newer products, and have some success in others (though not necessarily
making enough to cover for the amount they spend developing and marketing said
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| Authored by: complex_number on Monday, May 21 2012 @ 03:57 PM EDT |
by purchasing an existing volume maker
then they can kiss goodbye to the deals with the rest of the club of OEM's. The
will be rightly <redacted> with such a move. They will look for other ways
to make their PC's sell. Obvioulsy something like Ubuntu would be high on the
list but to be honest they need to sort out their support and make their primary
offering LTS and not one that changes every 6 months. This might be ok got the
geeks but for the average Windows user... No way.
They have a unique opportunity with the Windows 8 train crash that is going to
hit us soon. Users will reject Metro in droves but Unity is not the solution.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 21 2012 @ 11:03 PM EDT |
If that's the direction the market dictates, then it would make more sense for
Microsoft to drop the consumer business segment and concentrate on enterprise
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