Microsoft Goes Head-to-Head With IBM

conq writes "BusinessWeek has a piece on Microsoft's latest announcements that it is going after large-business computing, a realm that IBM currently has a stronghold on." From the article: "In both cases, the company has fashioned 'enterprise' versions of the products with additional security and collaboration-enabling features for sale to large businesses. Microsoft has spent $20 billion over the past three years on these upgrades, and Ballmer says it will spend $500 million over the next year marketing them to corporations. 'We're unlocking the next wave of growth for Microsoft,' Ballmer predicted during a press conference after his speech." We've previously discussed Microsoft's plans for IBM.

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And despite those Democrats having a reason to go easy on Microsoft, the Clinton Justice Department dealt the company the only serious threat to its monopoly.

Professionals with integrity can switch sides, as long as they really switch. Lawyers in particular are trained how to do so, and become successful when they exercise that skill. Your post is good evidence that the Clinton Democrats were professional managers, successful in their careers and in getting results. There is no evidence that they were corrupt. To the contrary, they damaged Microsoft while that was their job, as we have seen in abundance, then they took different jobs.

Meanwhile, when the Bush Republicans took over, they threw away the valuable gains made by the government they inherited as soon as possible. Despite their responsibility to protect Americans from monopoly abuse.

Your post is the standard Republican denial projection: all your arguments make sense only describing Republican crimes. So you turn them around, groundlessly frame Democrats with your own worst acts, and claim the sanity of anyone watching is just our denial. Perfect mockery of truth, sensibility and justice. At least you have the candor to identify every post with your ID, "InsaneGeek".