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| Authored by: mcinsand on Friday, December 21 2012 @ 09:17 AM EST |
Gartner has always been MS' sock puppet, so this does indeed sound like a trial
balloon. It looks as though MS is testing to see whether the market might let
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 21 2012 @ 10:34 AM EST |
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The Danish article links to an earlier New York Post article. Curiously in
one place it claims the link is to the New York Times. Guess the writer was
rushed.
New York Post
Both articles seem to draw on the
rumors which have been circulating on
and off for the last five years about
Ballmer's future. They pop up every
time there's the slightest problem at
Microsoft, and seem more aimed at
moving the stock price than
anything.
Ballmer will no doubt go at some point, but he's a long time
friend of Gates,
and I can't see him being moved out over a single quarters
worth of lower
sales. After Windows 8 has been on the market for a year, if
things are still
bad, then he might be moved
out.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 21 2012 @ 03:15 PM EST |
Why his test be for should Win8 on the mobile and not on the desktop? According
to the TomiAhonen-linked articles here on Groklaw, Microsoft never had much of a
chance at mobile to begin with.
But (according to current UI articles) with win8/Metro, MS is about to gable
away the traditional desktop marked at the very moment it is under pressure from
both the Cloud as well as Steam making Linux a viable alternative.
I would would expect that they at least try to keep the high-margin Office and
Gaming markeds.
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