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Warcraft 3 Expansion Beta Signups Announced
Clomer writes "Blizzard Entertainment has announced the signups for the beta testing of the upcoming expansion set to Warcraft 3 called The Frozen Throne. The beta will be online-only over battle.net, requires the full version of Warcraft 3, and is only open to US residents. Signups will be at battle.net starting on Friday, 14 February and will last a week."
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It will take Microsoft less that six months to go 90% Asian.
I estimate that Microsoft can reduce it's state-side workforce by over 90% in less than a year, reducing costs massively. The entire cost of being Microsoft could be reduced by more than half. Imagine if GM had an opportunity to cut it's costs in half in a matter of months. How long could they stall the stockholders?
Faced with declining profits over the very long term, the ravenous software giant is looking at alternatives to it's extremely expensive
American workforce. Since Microsoft has almost no crucial infrastructure, as is typical of the software industry, and has generally been trounced in ventures into hardware, where Microsoft's rapacious business practices are
less viable, it's costs are mostly labor, or the labor of "partners", and it pays through the nose for intellectual workers in Washington State and
similar. Huge cost savings are readily available in India, China and similar, where there is fairly good basic education and a relatively low
average income, and a huge and hungry talent base to cherry-pick. Microsoft tends to grab up anything with an IQ between 110 and 120, which
is what Bill Gates considers genius. This strategy also plays well with Microsoft's general strength-in-numbers approach to the software market and product development. American estimates of the time it would take
Microsoft to "globalize" it's technical force tend to be much longer than Asian estimates. Chinese and Indian authorities tend to talk in weeks on such issues.
A globalization move by Microsoft should also effect many of it's partners, also sometimes refered to as it's "lapdogs", and certain ancillary ventures like Transmeta, which manufactures a CPU chip said to be comparable in innovative value to the Windows Paperclip.
"requires the full version of Warcraft 3"
I guess my warez copy won't do...
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because they only to camoflauge their backs
They always find a good balance. People with no skill often cry imbalance, instead of learning how to scout and counter what's coming. I find War3 far from boring -- there is a lot of depth and complexity and it takes a lot of skill to play the game well and come out with a decent winning percentage.
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Why don't /. editors post my submissions...
I can't type the whole thing and all links again but here - Blue laser DVD format gets green light