Microsoft Asks Fed For Bailout

snydeq writes "Microsoft requested on Tuesday some $20 billion in bailout funds from the federal government, claiming that as the company controls an overwhelming share of the OS market, it is too big to fail. Low adoption rates for Vista, the ensuing ad campaign trying to convince people that they really do like Vista, and the increased need for development resources to rush Windows 7 to market to make people forget about Vista have necessitated the bailout, the company said. 'We want to make it absolutely clear that this is not a crisis of mismanagement,' said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in a prepared statement. 'This is simply a crisis of dollars — a crisis of not having enough dollars coming our way.'"

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Re:It's April 2 now

[Goldberg's Pants]

Let me just say FUCK YOU SLASHDOT! Every year you pull this shit and it's never funny. Last actual funny thing you did on this stupid fucktard of a day was the pig latin.

Once again, FUCK YOU! Try actually being professional next year, kthxbye.

Re:They are, ghowever

[Cromac]

The bridge in question connects one publicly accessible area to another publicly accessible area

"Publicly accessible" is the spin. It's connecting one MS parking lot to another MS parking lot. It's not like it's connecting two public streets.

It's not like the MS drones are going to walk anyway, they'll still use the free MS shuttles they have driving all over the city.

Re:The US Government asks Microsoft for a Bailout

[drinkypoo]

Where have you been for the last ten years that you haven't noticed the US trying to foist its vision of IP law off on the rest of the world, and the rest of the world struggling valiantly to tell the mafia goon "no thanks"? In order to distribute that stuff under profitable terms you have to have western IP law which isn't working out well for financial stability in the west. Anyway, that idea was already proven to be unworkable, which is why the Gates Foundation won't provide vaccinations to your country for free unless you provide full patent protection for pharmaceutical companies. Again, the purpose of their for-profit venture (they make for-profit investments in corporations which are doing direct medical harm to people they're giving vaccinations to, pretty much proving hypocrisy) is to push western IP law. Hopefully you were just kidding anyway :/ HHOS = FAIL in this case.