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Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised"
zacharye writes "Microsoft has a long and storied history of leadership in the tech industry, and the company has driven innovation for decades. In recent years, however, Microsoft has fallen behind the times in several key industries; the company's mobile position has deteriorated and left it with a low single-digit market share, and Microsoft won't launch Windows RT, its response to Apple's three-year-old iPad, until later this year. In a recent piece titled 'Microsoft’s Lost Decade,' Vanity Fair contributor Kurt Eichenwald analyzes the company’s 'astonishingly foolish management decisions' and picks apart moves made during the Steve Ballmer era."
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Palm trees and 8
the full article still isn't available, and this is just a short teaser.
Just like Microsoft product announcements.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Remember back in the days that Windows didn't have basic operating system features like memory protection and used to crash thrice daily?
Remember back in the days where using the latest version of IE would assure you that nothing but the most quirky IE only pages would render correctly?
Remember back in the days where Apple had a usable GUI for half a decade and MS users were stuck on a really shitty command line?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the (supposed) good of its victims may be the most oppressive
Ya, really.
> Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised"
And what's that? They became a studly male suave wit da ladies?
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Pepperidge Farm remembers....