I'm pretty sure that anyone who made it through law school could convince a jury that the people who did this should be found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit. What they did was depraved, and they'll pay for it.
Keep pretending anyone who does not hate Microsoft must work for them
Oh, I know that they have a lot of victims who don't realize just how bad they're getting screwed. Lots of people with MSCE "certifications" routinely cheer for the company that provides the problems from which they make their living.
I bet that simplifies your life enormously.
No, MSFT and the people it afflicts are nothing but amusement for me. I've been living MS-free since 1984.
Why sould shareholders complain about a 25% increase in revenue?
Perhaps because that increase in revenue was about five years late?
This chart shows what the problem is with MSFT. They haven't even outperformed the index funds over the last five years. They are no longer a growth stock, and that being the case, they should be paying out billions per quarter in dividends, not blowing it on ego-trips for Ballmer like Xbox, MSN, and Zune. That's shareholders' money he's wasting.
The little blip they got from finally shipping an update to DOS is noise on the chart. Unless they lose at least the top six(!) layers of managers over there, they'll continue to founder. Don't forget there was a time when everyone thought IBM was invulnerable, too.
Oh, I would have so much fun if a microserf visited my company and tried to convince us to base a mission-critical app on windows. First thing I'd ask: "Do you have a zune?"
If MSFTs investors had any brains, they would be GOOG or AAPL investors. I'm not worried that they might get a clue about how to fix that company from posting ideas that thousands of others have already said.
You realize, I hope, that "troll" is not a magic word that negates his points. I'm not surprised that you haven't tried to defend vista, or any of the previous dismal efforts from Microsoft. Some battles just aren't worth fighting are they, sunshine?
Please, tell me when this lynching will occur, I would be honored to pull the trap door lever.
What, did you work there or something?
Have fun.. For my part, I'm grateful to Ballmer, Alchin, and the rest of MSFT's mismanagement team. Their mishandling of Longhorn was just about optimal from an Apple shareholder's point of view. I'm sure that Google shareholders are similarly happy with their prevention of any viable competitor to Google emerging.
So, they already waited for Longhorn, which cratered. There's a very slow uptake of the 1 1/2 year rush-job that they called "vista", and now businesses are expected to wait for another MS development cycle of indeterminate duration?
I really don't know why MSFT's shareholders haven't lynched Ballmer by now.
Many years ago, I used to just tell phone spammers "sorry, not interested", and hang up. After e-mail spam took off, I considered the matter a little more thoroughly, and now I when I get a phone spam, my first statement is "put me on your do-not-call list for all clients", and then I let loose with a blue streak of the most vile verbal abuse I can improvise on the spot. The idea is to make the job of being a phone spammer as unpleasant as I possibly can, so as to increase attrition in the phone-spamming business.
The non-compete I signed when I joined Apple actually referenced that part of the California code, and was quite fair, as I recall. It said that they owned any inventions I came up with while working there that were pertinent to their business.
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I'm pretty sure that anyone who made it through law school could convince a jury that the people who did this should be found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit. What they did was depraved, and they'll pay for it.
-jcr
Looked to me like he was being ironic.
-jcr
Non free development does not work.
That's a bit of a stretch. I've used many operating systems and other commercial software products, and most of them worked just fine.
-jcr
Keep pretending anyone who does not hate Microsoft must work for them
Oh, I know that they have a lot of victims who don't realize just how bad they're getting screwed. Lots of people with MSCE "certifications" routinely cheer for the company that provides the problems from which they make their living.
I bet that simplifies your life enormously.
No, MSFT and the people it afflicts are nothing but amusement for me. I've been living MS-free since 1984.
-jcr
Why sould shareholders complain about a 25% increase in revenue?
Perhaps because that increase in revenue was about five years late?
This chart shows what the problem is with MSFT. They haven't even outperformed the index funds over the last five years. They are no longer a growth stock, and that being the case, they should be paying out billions per quarter in dividends, not blowing it on ego-trips for Ballmer like Xbox, MSN, and Zune. That's shareholders' money he's wasting.
The little blip they got from finally shipping an update to DOS is noise on the chart. Unless they lose at least the top six(!) layers of managers over there, they'll continue to founder. Don't forget there was a time when everyone thought IBM was invulnerable, too.
-jcr
Oh, I would have so much fun if a microserf visited my company and tried to convince us to base a mission-critical app on windows. First thing I'd ask: "Do you have a zune?"
-jcr
If MSFTs investors had any brains, they would be GOOG or AAPL investors. I'm not worried that they might get a clue about how to fix that company from posting ideas that thousands of others have already said.
-jcr
Oh, come on. There's no need to resort to fat jokes when discussing Ballmer.
-jcr
It's so cute when the microserfs show up to defend their company. Will even one of you ever do so with your name on the post?
-jcr
You realize, I hope, that "troll" is not a magic word that negates his points. I'm not surprised that you haven't tried to defend vista, or any of the previous dismal efforts from Microsoft. Some battles just aren't worth fighting are they, sunshine?
-jcr
Please, tell me when this lynching will occur, I would be honored to pull the trap door lever.
What, did you work there or something?
Have fun.. For my part, I'm grateful to Ballmer, Alchin, and the rest of MSFT's mismanagement team. Their mishandling of Longhorn was just about optimal from an Apple shareholder's point of view. I'm sure that Google shareholders are similarly happy with their prevention of any viable competitor to Google emerging.
-jcr
I see that you haven't refuted any of the items on his list, though.
-jcr
it's far from unsecurable.
Wake up and smell the botnets, sunshine.
-jcr
What is so bad about Vista when running on modern hardware?
Besides it being unreliable, unsecurable, and a pain in the ass to install and use?
Nothing...
-jcr
So, they already waited for Longhorn, which cratered. There's a very slow uptake of the 1 1/2 year rush-job that they called "vista", and now businesses are expected to wait for another MS development cycle of indeterminate duration?
I really don't know why MSFT's shareholders haven't lynched Ballmer by now.
-jcr
They sent robots to Hollywood?
-jcr
Many years ago, I used to just tell phone spammers "sorry, not interested", and hang up. After e-mail spam took off, I considered the matter a little more thoroughly, and now I when I get a phone spam, my first statement is "put me on your do-not-call list for all clients", and then I let loose with a blue streak of the most vile verbal abuse I can improvise on the spot. The idea is to make the job of being a phone spammer as unpleasant as I possibly can, so as to increase attrition in the phone-spamming business.
-jcr
So, you shield the car's computer. What's their next idea?
-jcr
The non-compete I signed when I joined Apple actually referenced that part of the California code, and was quite fair, as I recall. It said that they owned any inventions I came up with while working there that were pertinent to their business.
-jcr
You're already working there, and they want you to sign new conditions? Fuck that.
-jcr
Anyone who's ever had a look at their plug-in SDK can tell you that the UI is the least of what they need to overhaul
-jcr
Stock market continues to hit new highs.
:-(
Not today, it didn't.
-jcr
For sufficiently small values of "success".
-jcr
Would Apple screw over their supplier for their most lucrative product over a leak?
More to the point, would a vendor who makes hundreds of millions of dollars from their relationship with Apple screw the pooch like this?
The story is bullshit.
-jcr
They're certainly a big enough institution to just put out a quarterly or monthly "proceedings of the NIH".
-jcr