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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Re:The Problem

[Darkness404]

Ah yes, because Microsoft steals ~25% of my income. Microsoft forces me at gunpoint to buy a PC and an Xbox, saying that if I don't buy a PC I have to pay them even more for the "privilege" to not have a PC. I forgot that Microsoft goes around arming drug cartels and propping up dictators. I also forgot that Vista drones are firing missiles at unarmed civilians.

The government, by definition is a parasite. The rich can be parasitic by relying on the government, the poor can be parasitic by relying on the government. The poor can have no parasitic effect if they do not rely on the government and same with the rich. It just so happens that in the US the "poor" (lets face it, the "poor" in the US are rich compared to a large chunk of the world) enjoy using the parasite of the government to encourage it to steal more.