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Microsoft Is a Dying Consumer Brand
Taxman415a noted a CNN story on the dying Microsoft brand where they talk about "The less than stellar performance of, and problems in, nearly every consumer division. It cites StatCounter's data showing IE's market share falling below 50%, and is even smart enough to note that's just one statistic with various problems, though the trend is clear. It also seems that MS doesn't want to compete with Android, so it plans to charge royalty fees to handset makers to discourage them from using it in their products. The conclusion is that MS will just be a commercial, not consumer company."
Windows is dying!
I am officially gone from
It made $145 million last quarter.
They first made a profit in 2008, of $524 Million. While it hasn't made money every quarter, to say it's "lost billions since its inception" is misleading at best. Unless you're claiming that zune sales and PC games are making up for "billions" lost (LOL!), your claim is bogus.
"recent failures suggest otherwise"
Microsoft is misunderstood. Microsoft is not a software company that sometimes does evil. Microsoft is an evil company that sometimes delivers products.
That's my opinion, but I'm not the only one.
.... and litigating.
Not xbox-- that division has lost billions since inception.
Curse you Leonardo!
Prove it.
Captain Miss-The-Point strikes again!
Do I really need to quote finance.google.com for the quarter before that to also show you that MS's profits weren't twice as high?
You don't consider Linux Desktop a success? I think Ubuntu is a huge success. Just because it's not the one on top doesn't mean it isn't successful, my whole point.
people willing to separate from the herd and try something new.
Oh really fucking funny, asshole. It will be released one day and you will see the stupidity of your words.
It's GNU H u rd BTW, retard.
Thank goodness that that won't happen as long as Linux From Scratch is around! ;-)
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