make them pay damages... but also, reduce the length of their patent. Whhoooppps, bogus law suit, that's move the termination of your patent from 2017 to 2014.
Ya know, IBM isn't dead. While IBM Market Cap is about half of Microsoft's, (128B vs 240B), it generates twice the revenue (91B vs 40B) with admittedly a smaller profit (10B vs 14B). Thing is, IBM is a very diversified company. They sell hardware, software and services across ALL computers lines. IBM is also investing heavily in Linux and open source in general. Hacking away one product line has very little affect on IBM...see Thinkpads (sadly).
Microsoft sells Windows and Office, everything else that Microsoft is involved is a failure that is supported by its two flagship products. Without Windows and Office, Microsoft is nothing. And as far as I can, Microsoft has basically one more upgrade of each. With Office, ODF is going to make it so it doesn't matter which office suite you use, breaking the MS lock in. Visto will sell for a while, but honestly, outside of built in DRM - its lead over Linux is rapidly diminishing on the desktop and has vanished on the server. Why would you put a Windows server in a computer room these days unless your client absolutely insists on Exchange?
I predict that Microsoft will hit a tipping point in about 4 to 5 years when both the Office and Windows lines insane profitability starts to drop to just average profitability and then the bloated Microsoft will utterly implode.
With the Thinkpad brand leaving IBM and moving to China, Apple now makes the best laptops in the world, bar none. With a Mac able to boot OSX, WinDoze and Linux, as my retire my trusty Thinkpads, I'll be buying Apples from now on. Yes, there is an Apple tax, but I'm more than willing to pay it.
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Just wait until Florida disappears and all those homeowners what to be bailed out.
make them pay damages... but also, reduce the length of their patent. Whhoooppps, bogus law suit, that's move the termination of your patent from 2017 to 2014.
No summary for you. It is like this guy writes cliffhangers for television shows. Maybe next season he'll finish some of his thoughts.
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Ya know, IBM isn't dead. While IBM Market Cap is about half of Microsoft's, (128B vs 240B), it generates twice the revenue (91B vs 40B) with admittedly a smaller profit (10B vs 14B). Thing is, IBM is a very diversified company. They sell hardware, software and services across ALL computers lines. IBM is also investing heavily in Linux and open source in general. Hacking away one product line has very little affect on IBM...see Thinkpads (sadly). Microsoft sells Windows and Office, everything else that Microsoft is involved is a failure that is supported by its two flagship products. Without Windows and Office, Microsoft is nothing. And as far as I can, Microsoft has basically one more upgrade of each. With Office, ODF is going to make it so it doesn't matter which office suite you use, breaking the MS lock in. Visto will sell for a while, but honestly, outside of built in DRM - its lead over Linux is rapidly diminishing on the desktop and has vanished on the server. Why would you put a Windows server in a computer room these days unless your client absolutely insists on Exchange? I predict that Microsoft will hit a tipping point in about 4 to 5 years when both the Office and Windows lines insane profitability starts to drop to just average profitability and then the bloated Microsoft will utterly implode.
With the Thinkpad brand leaving IBM and moving to China, Apple now makes the best laptops in the world, bar none. With a Mac able to boot OSX, WinDoze and Linux, as my retire my trusty Thinkpads, I'll be buying Apples from now on. Yes, there is an Apple tax, but I'm more than willing to pay it.