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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."
Once again...it aint you!
XBOX live kicks ass
If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
MSFT will declare bankruptcy any day now!
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
show US the money lairy.
"In the case of software sales, which often involve multiyear deals, a major gray area exists in determining whether to book the revenue when the deal is signed, or when some or all of the software is delivered and installed. The problem worsened during the boom, when both software and Internet companies were signing many multiyear deals ultimately ?worth? tens of millions of dollars."
L0L(tm)
"People who are compensated in options had an incentive to inflate prices," he said.
"There is a pattern here," he said, referring to company behavior. "There will be more indictments."
maybe the kingdumb will call IT, FUDux.0h0h
doesN'T l00k LIEk they're goon to be abull to call IT Lindows(TMp). that sure would have been handy. would have made a nice name used to priNT up some more phony billonly stock markup payper, to "spin" off onto trusting old J. et AL.
likely, that bullshipping(tm) co. won't go for the FUDox lowgo. has anyone heard how elmer fudd's name dilution/defamation litigation is going? he was the won whois hurt the MoSt, we think.
http://www.osnews.com and it has a Victoria's Secret ad? WTF? That was funny.
Cypherpunks: Civil Liberty Through Complex Mathematics. Those who live by the sword die by the arrow.
And product activation sucks but so does having perhaps the most pirated piece of software in the world so you really can't blame them.
Microsoft WANTS it pirated. Because pirated Windows is what keeps Linux out of the desktop in a large part of the world.
If all eastern Asia had to pay the price Microsoft asks for its software, you'd be sure to see a lot of local OSes spawned from BSD or Linux, with great support for local languages.
But when you can have a pirated copy of a fully-featured Windows for 3$, why bother ?
No kidding, I'm so sick of these altruistic nimrods it's amazing. Yes businesses try to make money, yes thats what this country was founded upon. Don't like it? Take a hike, go to China where everyone works for the government and struggles for food from day to day.
This is a great.... blog entry, thanks Slashdot!
When will we get the "Story Moderation" feature in Slashcode? I look forward to the day.
I know this is offtopic, but here goes nothing... My father worked on the Space Shuttle program, and one of his tasks was converting a program from PL/1 to F77. That program calculated how much fuel was needed based upon the planned flight path. He couldn't tell me much else he worked on, 'cause he'd have to kill me. :)
27 years and counting without ever having seen a Star Wars movie.
27 years and all you can do is point out how you have no basis for an opinion on something? Well whoopee!
25 years without ever having experienced bleeding-ass sodomy