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Microsoft Goes Head-to-Head With IBM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cue-gunfight-music dept.

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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  1. But... by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wouldn't that require an operating system that didn't suck?

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    1. Re:But... by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, what if they install Windows on a vacuum cleaner, and use that as an enterprise server?

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    2. Re:But... by Billly+Gates · · Score: 5, Funny

      BUt would the vacuum cleaner no longer "suck" if it ran windows?

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  2. Re:I should have gone into advertising... by ShaniaTwain · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..er, no - thats Billion! (with a B)

    But yes, with your keen eye to detail you should have gone into advertising. Not so much an emphasis on things like 'facts' in that industry.

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  3. GWB should hire Microsoft ... by dc29A · · Score: 5, Funny

    They have an iPod killer.
    They have a Google killer.
    They have a Java killer.
    They have an IBM killer.

    Microsoft has a killer for everything!

    Dubya should hire Microsoft to develop a terrorist killer! War on Terror would be victorious!

  4. Microsoft's Result by SEWilco · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Big Blue Screen of Death"

    Please wait for your airline reservation while critical update download completes.

  5. Innovation by metamatic · · Score: 4, Funny
    The new features that Ballmer showed off during his speech seemed useful. He showed how, using Microsoft's integrated applications, people can draw capabilities from a number of applications without even paying attention to which one they're using at any given time. That means you could, for example, get a PowerPoint attachment in an e-mail and edit it right in Outlook.

    Oooh, they implemented OLE in Outlook! How 1995 of them.

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  6. Blah blah blah, heard it all before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember these guys. Wasn't it them who said they were going to build a desktop operating system to beat OS/2? Then they were going to build a word processor to beat Word Perfect, then a spreadsheet to knock Lotus 123 off its perch, then they were going to build a database that was cheaper and easier to maintain than Oracle. At one point they even said they getting into games machines.