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Why Microsoft Shouldn't Worry About Cannibalizing Their Userbases
New submitter coyote_oww writes "A ComputerWorld analysis article suggests that Microsoft should stop worrying about one product cutting into another product's sales, and concentrate on putting their best foot foward regardless of the impact on product lines. The big impact would be the price of Windows: '... Microsoft must, at least in the main, sell devices based on lower prices. And the only significant component of a Windows-powered device that can be cut further — hardware margins are at or very near the bone, and have been for years — is the Windows license.' It's still possible they could sell Windows versions at different rates for different devices, but that could get hard to justify to consumers over the long haul."
Steve should consider throwing his best chair forward.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
It sounds like he's proactively reorganizing the corporate paradigm to maximize cross-platform synergy and leverage integrated competencies.
You don't work in IT, do you?
The cool thing about this is inevitably somebody would hack CUPS into Windows...
In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
Do the right thing MS.. Move to *nix back end like the other 0.80% that use *nix
Fixed that for you.
Yeah, the real hog is the System Idle Process, I see that taking up to 99% of my systems processing power when I'm not even doing anything. Find a way to get rid of that and you'll be golden.
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