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The Soul of A New Microsoft
BusinessWeek Online is running a front page story today about the new future of Microsoft. By 'looking beyond Windows', the company is utilizing fresh blood to come up with new products like the Zune, the Xbox 360, and various online sites. While the Zune probably isn't getting off to as successful a start as they might have liked, the article argues it's a positive sign that they're at least making the attempt. From the article: "The point is that Microsoft needs to find its un-Vista. Several of them, in fact. The software giant is entering perhaps the greatest upheaval in its 30-year history. New business models are emerging--from low-cost "open-source" software to advertising-supported Web services--that threaten Microsoft's core business like never before. For investors to care about the company, it needs to find new growth markets. Its $44.3 billion in annual sales are puttering along at an 11% growth pace. Its shares, which soared 9,560% throughout the 1990s, sunk 63% in 2000 when the Internet bubble burst, and they have yet to fully recover."
Factoid: Microsoft owns the domains www. anti zune.com / net / org. But they do not own www.zune.com.
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> Microsoft ponders acquisition of a Soul
I always thought they were into stealing souls.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
You forgot the upheaval to make security a top priority.
Just innovative ways of making a loss?
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Damn those EULAs!
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
As a resident of North Dakota, I take pleasure in frequently reminding those with disparaging remarks about ND of two "interesting" factoids:
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- ND has a sizeable portion of the worlds wheat
- ND has a sizeable portion of the worlds nuclear weapons
Oddly enough, MS has a development office in ND and employs around 1100 people here. None of them work on wheat or nuke distribution, to my knowledge
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Microsoft is currently busy Zuning themselves to death because of iPod envy.
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