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John Dvorak's Eight Signs MS is Dead in the Water

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-we're-all-obsessed-with-google dept.

j79 writes "John Dvorak has written an opinion piece on why he believes Microsoft is dead in the water. He discusses Vista, Office 2007, MSN and MSN search, the Xbox 360, Pad-based computing, .Net, and Microsoft's obsession with Google. "

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  1. Re:Dvorak is a Goofball Gasbag by SuperRob · · Score: 4, Informative

    For someone currently using the new Office beta, and having been intimately familiar with previous versions, I'd just like to say that the learning curve is suprisingly low. I've had little problem getting going with it, and my documents look arguably more polished now since some features are better "exposed" with the ribbon.

    On the flip-side, finding the options and changing defaults is trickier if you don't know what to look for. But overall, I think the "retraining" argument doesn't hold a lot of weight.