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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 11:56 PM EDT |
The author is a former Microsoft exec and this bit is the fourth in a
series.
In the third installment, this gem is
found
Remember how Microsoft once beat another fierce
competitor called Netscape? Its browser, Navigator, reigned supreme for nearly
three years until Internet Explorer caught up and the development community and
the pundits eventually regarded Explorer as superior. Only then did its public
usage increase, and only then did Netscape lose the race.
link
With that kind of reality disconnect, the man's sagacity carries little
weight.
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| Authored by: artp on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 12:05 AM EDT |
This is not the text you are looking for.
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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 04:42 AM EDT |
A questionable judge and an appellate court concurred with the Feds,
and ill-guided politicians, Microsoft haters, and competitors maintained that
the company had gotten too powerful and needed to be reined in. I still consider
their intervention a first class judicial blunder, but who am I to change
antitrust history?
I see it all, now. The courts made a major
blunder by deciding that Microsoft should be reined in from illegal activity
under the Sherman Act.
I am not quite sure under what circumstances
taking someone to court for illegal activity would not be a first class judicial
blunder.
Perhaps only a lawyer or a former Microsoft senior executive
can tell. Well, them and FM, of course.---
Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 08:13 AM EDT |
M$ is fast going down the toilet and my guess is that they
really are being seen as a "bad" company, and many may see
M$ as an investment to avoid. Any kind of positive PR (lies)
that M$ spews fouth into the Internet's infinite memory will
help them, or so they think.
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| Authored by: cassini2006 on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 09:07 AM EDT |
Microsoft's real problem is that their competitors have free operating
systems. To fight Android/ARM on a level playing field, Microsoft needs to
start giving away Microsoft Windows and Office, and supporting all platforms.
Intel has a similar problem. In comparison to Intel's mark-ups, ARM
processor licensing is almost free. To fight ARM, Intel needs to reduce its
mark-up on x86 chips, and start making ARM chips too.
In both cases, the
results are the same. Intel and Microsoft can choose between:
a) dropping
prices and losing money immediately, but maintain market share.
b) maintain
prices and watch market share fall.
c) become a patent troll.
A director
of a public company is forced to choose (b) and (c), because by law, the board
of directors must maximize short term returns for share holders. This issue is
the big reason why Dell is going private. Private companies have more
options.
When confronted with the collapse of the mainframe sector, IBM chose
option (b). IBM's profits in the mainframe sector have increased even though
mainframes represent a minuscule fraction of the total computer market.
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| Authored by: albert on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 12:23 PM EDT |
Microsoft is NOT like the GOP, it is like the GOPs _base_, those
ultra-conservatives with no tenable positions on any subject. Those are the
folks holding the GOP back. There are lots of moderate conservatives who want to
swing the GOP towards the center. Only when this happens, will the party regain
a competitive position.
MS doesn't appear to have the 'moderate' equivalents within their management,
nor does there appear to be a means by which they could make that happen.
Perhaps the Republican National Committee would be a better metaphor?
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