Microsoft's Worst Enemy: Themselves

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."

Comments

Court order not needed

[KaiKaitheKai]

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

You Need Only Consider IIS...

[BigBlockMopar]

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.

Re:You Need Only Consider IIS...

[BigBlockMopar]

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.

well,

[kingofnopants]

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

Now if only....

[nizo]

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