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A Former Microsoftie Forecasts Microsoft Doom

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the watch-out-for-cacodemon-bob dept.

Chris Holland writes "Jeff Reifman, a columnist for Seattle Weekly, has written a toe-curling editorial analysis of Microsoft's past and current missed opportunities, contrasted with its financial success, while covering in fair depth some of the most serious threats to their business model. Beyond the many choice quotes, I've found this article to be a very interesting read from somebody who has not only been on the inside, but also significantly developed his professional career thru Microsoft solutions."

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  1. John Carmack's not happy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    John Carmack can't be happy about Microsoft embrace and extend to his video game! It's sounds funny anyway: Microsoft Doom
    It's almost like the company had troubles or something.

  2. First paragraph by Brando_Calrisean · · Score: 5, Funny

    I laughed when I read the first paragraph of his article, because it pretty much totally summarized my morning. I tried to open up explorer to work with some shares, and a dialog would come up saying "Access is denied." and nothing would happen. Okay, great. So I load up task manager, and kill all errant explorer processes. I get to the last one, hit 'end task', and get "Access is denied." Super! Suddenly, all my applications stop responding, so I kill them all in task manager, and they disappear, but still show up in the ALT+TAB list. I threw in the towel, and decided to reboot. Windows hangs at the 'Saving your data' screen...

    I'd love to see someone factor that kind of crap in in a Total Cost of Ownership study.

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    Don't call me a cowboy, and don't tell me to slow down!
  3. Re:in the dictionary by kraut · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's in the " The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language", which is of course an oxymoron.

    Now repeat after me: "The Oxford English Dictionary is the ONLY accepted reference for English!" Feel free to write it on the blackboard a few times as well, just to make sure it sinks in.

    English is English, through is not spelled "thru", night is not spelled "nite", and there is no such word as "burglarize". The verb is burgle. Of course, you chaps in the colonies can do what you like with your language, but don't call it English ! ;)

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    no taxation without representation!
  4. Internet Expl-aaaaaggggh by baxissimo · · Score: 5, Funny

    "'Here may be found the last words of kpansky. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find a crash-free browsing experience in the Microsoft Internet Expl-aaaaaagggh'"

    "What?"

    "Internet Expl-aaaaagggh"

    "What is that?"

    "His browser must have died while typing it."

    "Oh, come on!"

    "Well, that's what it says."

    "Look, if his browser was dying, it wouldn't bother to transmit 'aaaaaggh'. It'd just pop up one of those ridiculous 'Do you want to report this to Microsoft' dialogs."

    " Well, that's what's typed in the Slashdot posting!"

    "Perhaps he was dictating to someone using Mozilla."