Given their poor track record on internally integrating other products such as Project or Visio, how is that anyone, especially inside MSoft thinks this is gonna work out well for them in the long run? They internally suffer from a) NIH (not invented here), b) Apple-envy, c) left-hand, right-hand, middle-hand not knowing what's going on, c) probably NO enthusiasm on the part of the MSN folks for this deal (you can just imagine the turf wars this will engender, c) the bailing-out for the best technical folks at Yahoo....HOW does this possibly work????? It's the equivalent of, if IBM had bought out MSoft in the late 80's...it just wouldn't have worked; IBM had to reinvent itself (as a services company) to remain relevant and profitable because they were dying then (their mainframe line & SAA-O/Ss the functional equivalent of Vista/Office 2007. Vista and Office 2007 are disasters that have not fully been accounted for...and they will be. And this will be a distraction (maybe it was planned that way by MSoft executives *"Hey, look over there!"...because the O/S-Office market is starting to fade on them.
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Given their poor track record on internally integrating other products such as Project or Visio, how is that anyone, especially inside MSoft thinks this is gonna work out well for them in the long run? They internally suffer from a) NIH (not invented here), b) Apple-envy, c) left-hand, right-hand, middle-hand not knowing what's going on, c) probably NO enthusiasm on the part of the MSN folks for this deal (you can just imagine the turf wars this will engender, c) the bailing-out for the best technical folks at Yahoo....HOW does this possibly work????? It's the equivalent of, if IBM had bought out MSoft in the late 80's...it just wouldn't have worked; IBM had to reinvent itself (as a services company) to remain relevant and profitable because they were dying then (their mainframe line & SAA-O/Ss the functional equivalent of Vista/Office 2007. Vista and Office 2007 are disasters that have not fully been accounted for...and they will be. And this will be a distraction (maybe it was planned that way by MSoft executives *"Hey, look over there!"...because the O/S-Office market is starting to fade on them.
Does it STILL collapse the wave function? What if I'm slightly off...what if I'm WAY off. How perfect must my observation be to collapse the function?
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