the PC market is half as much an albatross as it is a cash cow - MS really *can't* abandon the PC market
Albatross? I'd like that kind of "albatross". If the PC market doesn't tank, Microsoft keeps selling stuff; if it does tank, why would Microsoft continue with the OEMs? The second possibility is bad for Microsoft, but it could abandon the PC market.
But before you get to diseconomies of scale, you have to go through economies of scale. There's a reason that automobile production in the US became more concentrated, and it wasn't government bailouts.
Also, what diseconomies does Microsoft face, at least if it confines itself to Windows/Office?
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the PC market is half as much an albatross as it is a cash cow - MS really *can't* abandon the PC market
Albatross? I'd like that kind of "albatross". If the PC market doesn't tank, Microsoft keeps selling stuff; if it does tank, why would Microsoft continue with the OEMs? The second possibility is bad for Microsoft, but it could abandon the PC market.
Then how would you decide the constitutionality of government actions?
But before you get to diseconomies of scale, you have to go through economies of scale. There's a reason that automobile production in the US became more concentrated, and it wasn't government bailouts.
Also, what diseconomies does Microsoft face, at least if it confines itself to Windows/Office?
We're just pining for the fjords of Norway!
Not Mordor, but Mount St. Helens (about 100 miles from Redmond). Don't know if it gets hot enough to melt the ring.
But if you pay the Osgeld, you'll never get rid of the Os.
The problem is they have a definition of free that sounds awfully restrictive to a lot of people.
Yeah, and the abolitionists' definition of "freedom" sounded awfully restrictive to a lot of slaveholders.
Boston traffic worse? That would be an achievement!
When will Miceosoft claim that PCs can't get Mac viruses?
KDE does.
Panguite is also robust, piquant and goes well with Duck L'Orange.
Then why do they have locks on the Panama Canal, huh?
Because the Isthmus of Panama isn't flat.
But even if there were an app, Iranians still couldn't get an iPad.
Except that supervillains are competent psychopaths.
In a company, it is common for the secretary to handle more of the day-to-day business than the CEO.
So that's why Warren Buffett's secretary has a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett!
Because we don't want to stain the nice furniture in the White House?
Your employer expects only 40 hours a week? How quaint.
But the trackers will know that you have disabled tracking.
Oh, here's a wacky idea: just leave your work phone at home when you get home from work. The tracking feature will show that your phone is home.
Why would I want to run Gnome or KDE on a tablet, when I can run Metro?
Because they're not Metro?
If Microsoft pushes the OEMs too far, we may see large donations to the WINE project. http://www.winehq.org/
something that doesn't require the use of his hands?
I was responding to the GGP (CastrTroy), who made such a comparison.
I've run databases, web servers, mail servers all on a Linux machine with less RAM.
But did you run a GUI, or go headless? The latter isn't always possible on Windows.
Of course RAM is cheap so why not just add a little more?
RAM cards may be cheap, but how do you add RAM slots?
A 1.8 GHz CPU? My HP laptop has 2 2.2 GHZ CPUs and cost significantly less.