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Microsoft's Worst Enemy: Themselves

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the food-for-the-machine dept.

KobyBoy writes "Saw this story posted on OSnews this morning. "Microsoft's biggest threat isn't Linux, OpenOffice, or any piece of software at all--its themselves. Over the last eighteen months two distinctly different Microsoft cultures have emerged, often in opposition to each other." You can get the full article at Sudhian Media."

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  1. Court order not needed by KaiKaitheKai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, it didn't take a supreme court order to split Microsoft in two.

  2. You Need Only Consider IIS... by BigBlockMopar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course Microsoft is their own worst enemy. Who else would allow IIS or Outlook - a security hole which masquerades as an e-mail client - to be some of their flagship products?

    The security holes are even more annoying than the damned animated paperclip.

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    Fire and Meat. Yummy.
    1. Re:You Need Only Consider IIS... by DalTech · · Score: 2, Funny

      My animated paperclip went on a bender and refuses to speak to me.

    2. Re:You Need Only Consider IIS... by BigBlockMopar · · Score: 5, Funny

      My animated paperclip went on a bender and refuses to speak to me.

      The last time I heard mine was a dying scream as I mounted my FAT32 partition, navigated to it, and typed the magic letters:

      # rm -rf *

      It was high, blood-curdling, but strangely satisfying. Like the sound of the welds in a Honda's body popping as the car crusher takes it down to 3 apples tall, then the wet thunk of a cast-aluminum engine block cracking like a flowerpot in a vise.

      Mercifully, when I had to install Excel on Wine because OpenOffice doesn't do something as fscking simple as a polynomial regression, the damned paperclip didn't work.

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      Fire and Meat. Yummy.
    3. Re:You Need Only Consider IIS... by Selfbain · · Score: 2, Funny

      The paperclip talks to me. It tells me to do things.

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      Well, it has never been successfully tested.
  3. well, by kingofnopants · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, this proves it. Microsoft is everyone's worst enemy

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    Disco Stu was talkin' to you.
  4. Eugenia by Illuminati+Member · · Score: 3, Funny

    Watch out poster, you may feel the wrath of Eugenia (head of osnews.org). She claims to be all about free OS's and such, but the moment you directly quote the site (like in a comment to avoid slashdotting), she immediately gets angry and lashes out. You directly quoted the article!
    Be wary!

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    Yeah, I'm a Republican AND a geek. It is possible.
  5. Re:Control by KaiKaitheKai · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, that darned "Internet stuff." Too bad it never got off the ground, it could have been big...

  6. Now if only.... by nizo · · Score: 5, Funny

    If we can get one half to sue the other half, we will have something.

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    I Am My Own Worst Enemy
  7. Re:perspectives by pyrrho · · Score: 3, Funny

    would you like a little Nuclear War with that sir?

    As a New American I'm forced to ask you the following questions:

    (1) why do you hate america so much? that is, what is it that you despise about freedom?

    (2) if other countries are so great, why is America the only democracy in the world?

    (3) how do YOU know what's going on in American society... are you some sort of SPY!?!?!?!

    Have a nice day.

    PS: satire+cynicism+sarcasm

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    -pyrrho

  8. Re:Mac vs Apple ][ by Lt+Razak · · Score: 2, Funny

    Time to watch "Pirates of Silicon Valley" again!!

  9. Re:So open source isn't good enough... by Bug-Y2K · · Score: 2, Funny
    The point of the article was that, no matter how good or bad your product is, or how firmly entrenched you monopoly may be, if you piss off your customers long enough, you will eventually strangle yourself to death.


    So, how does that explain Quark, Inc.?