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Microsoft Writes Off Corel
PizzaFace writes "Microsoft resuscitated Corel two and a half years ago, paying $135 million for a quarter of Corel's equity ownership. Corel talked then about bringing its products to .Net, and even hinted that it might use its Linux expertise to port .Net to Linux. Since then, Corel gave up on the Linux business and isn't talking anymore about .Net, but is instead riding its XML hobbyhorse. So Microsoft is selling its stake in Corel to a VC firm for $13 million, taking a 90% loss on the investment."
There's a very similar article over at tubgirl tech archive. It was posted about a week ago.
Slashdot 's editors are dickheads
without corel, the entire computing infrastructure as we know it is going to collapse all around us.
i am off to start the looting.
I'll say. At my last job, I had the misfortune of being dictated to use Corel Draw even though we already had Photoshop, simply because the PHB used it once in college. In my opinion, even The GIMP has a superior user interface.
Actually, you should check your facts before you go spouting off bullshit like this. In reality, MS bought Corel only to discover that a bunch of negroes worked there and they refused to do any work. Eventually the entire company all got AIDs from one another, so MS decided to pull the plug.
aw...you're just pissed cause your mom worked there.
;o)
and got fired.
lazy whore...all she'd do all day was sit on the copier.
i got fired too.
i was screwing her on top of the copier.
say hi to your 'brother' for me
What about Microsoft hardware, you stupid fucking cunt son of a bitch asshole?
Good point, and good point by the parent and grandparent posts.
My point is this: If your mother tells me one more time that she's going to swallow my cum, and then spits it out at the last minute, I'm going to beat her face even worse than I normally do. What a bitch.
That's 2 BJs a day, X 365 days in a year
that's a fuck of a lot of crack that whore buys because of me.
you must still be using wordperfect 3.0 where you need to WORRY about codes.
Winword is far superior to WP in every way imagineable. If Corel had kept the development up on WP, maybe it would still compete, but nobody has innovated or made that product worth its investment since before it was owned by Novell. That, IMHO, was the downfall of WP.
What are you smoking? No one in the real world gives a shit about Linux except the faggots around here on slashdot. Bill Gates wouldn't give a fart to get rid of linux, it would be a waste of a fart he could have used in a meeting for a few laughs. Stop pretending that Penix matters outside of your little world, take a shower, develop some real marketable skills, and stop sucking cock all the time. Cunt hole.
So well that all my hardware purchases for the forseeable future will be from Apple.
Well, they'll have to be from Apple if you're going to stick with a closed-market Operating System.
Also, while the XBox is still not making as much as the PS2, Im sure MS is recouping their money. Remember, the games make the money, not the system.
Also, you will probably see a lot of lessons they learned from the XBox begin to show up down the road in PC gaming.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.