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Five Ways Microsoft Could Change After Gates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-talk-about dept.

Might Squirrel noted a perfectly mediocre story to chat about on a boring post-holiday weekend Monday. This one is a look at 5 ways Microsoft could change after Gates. From accepting Open Source to serious interoperability work, there are definitely 5 things on that list there. Nothing about my solid gold rocket car.

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  1. Sixth way MS can change after Gates by kvezach · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... is to rename themselves TriOptimum.

  2. 5 ways by tom17 · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. It could get much worse
    2. It could get worse
    3. It could stay the same
    4. It could get better
    5. It could get much better

    1. Re:5 ways by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 5, Funny

      6. CowboyNeal.

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    2. Re:5 ways by sskagent · · Score: 2, Funny

      Forgot one 6. It could stay much the same

    3. Re:5 ways by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      6. Microsoft could merge with AOL and Yahoo and become even more of a boring beast. The combined company would be called Microyaolsoft.

    4. Re:5 ways by capnkr · · Score: 4, Funny

      And the one thing that won't change:

      6. Profit

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  3. Slashdot in 'not as good as it used to be' shock by Harold+Halloway · · Score: 5, Funny

    So Slashdot is now posting 'perfectly mediocre' stories? Come back Roland, all is forgiven.

  4. Open source Windows Vista? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And kill linux and OSX at the same time...

    1. Re:Open source Windows Vista? by Alex+Pennace · · Score: 3, Funny

      And the Internet, too, if everyone grabs the Vista .tar.gz.

  5. Re:Slashdot in 'not as good as it used to be' shoc by ghoti · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, it seems Taco is having a bit of an identity crisis. Either that, or he's just grumpy about having to work at such an ungodly early hour.

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  6. change by mark72005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "are you sure you want to change Microsoft?" (confirm) (cancel)

    "are you really sure you want to change Microsoft? Like sure, sure?"
    (confirm) (cancel)

    "performing this action can be dangerous, are you sure?"
    (confirm) (cancel)

    "ok really this time...

  7. "But, Doctor Evil" by argent · · Score: 2, Funny

    Without Gates Microsoft runs the risk of becoming a faceless super-corporation focusing on sales rather than developing the tech that could give the company an edge.

    But, Doctor Evil, that already happened.

    Microsoft has not made any fundamental improvements to Windows since Windows 2000, and I'd have to look back even further than that to find any major improvements to Office.

  8. Re:Don't expect any radical shift by mhall119 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Specifically it argued that MS should code the Windows desktop as a window interface running on top of a Linux core. At the time I dismissed it as the ravings of a Linux fan, but I wonder more and more if there isn't some value in the argument.

    So you get all the Windows compatibility of Linux, but with the flexibility of a Windows UI? Sounds like a winner to me.

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  9. Re:1. Greater acceptence of Open Source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    He used "M$"! He used "M$"!

    OMFG a Twitter Sock-Puppet!1!1! No REAL person uses that! LOLOLZ0rZ!!11!!

  10. Re:Slashdot in 'not as good as it used to be' shoc by exley · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Taco is that pissed off about doing Slashdot these days then why doesn't he step down so he can go run his multi-billion dollar charity organization?