El Reg misses the forest for the trees
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| montezuma Jan 19, 2013 11:43 AM EDT |
Windows 8 is also unpopular with punters who are considering getting tablets rather than desktops/laptops. If Windows 8 is a disaster then M$ is in some trouble I would think. THAT IS a really big story Journos can smell blood from a big prey. |
| r_a_trip Jan 19, 2013 2:03 PM EDT |
It's Balmer that is killing Microsoft. Bill Gates might have been an evil CEO, but he was a CEO with vision and he has taken MS places that Balmer never could and never will. Good for humanity, but the deathknell for MS. |
| Fettoosh Jan 19, 2013 4:08 PM EDT |
Quoting:It's Balmer that is killing Microsoft. @trip, Don't you think you are giving Balmer too much credit and diminishing FOSS's a bit. :-) MS is bleeding from thousands of cuts induced by the opportunities FOSS helped create. |
| caitlyn Jan 21, 2013 12:43 PM EDT |
Microsoft isn't dying. It can live on indefinitely through patent trolling and litigation. Unlike SCO the are big enough and have deep enough pockets to extort their way into profitability. I am also aware of situations where they force partners and vendors to price MS solutions low and FOSS solutions ridiculously high, guaranteeing sales where their solutions should absolutely fail in the free market. |
| DrGeoffrey Jan 21, 2013 5:14 PM EDT |
Indefinitely is a long time. Or, as someone once said, "In the long run, we are all dead." |
| Fettoosh Jan 21, 2013 7:29 PM EDT |
Quoting:Microsoft isn't dying. I said bleeding not dying. Yes, MS will survive as a financial company but not so sure about being a tech company. When FOSS and FOSS based products are dominant, MS won't be as profitable as it would as a monopoly. MS sued those who really didn't want to bother with its aggravation and we are not sure whether their contracts were profitable to them or not since none of them were ever disclosed. The question is, why haven't they sued Google yet? |
| gus3 Jan 22, 2013 1:19 PM EDT |
@DrGeoffrey, the one I heard was, "On a long enough time scale, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." |
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