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Is Microsoft running out of steam?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 7 comments
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People forget that the central purpose of patents is to encourage real innovation, not simply reward people for being the first to file for even obvious ideas with over-stretched patent offices that set incredibly low bars. The world of patents has become perverted in recent years: patents are seen as valuable things in themselves – the more the merrier – irrespective of whether they do, truly, promote innovation. Worse: in the world of software, they are actually brakes on that innovation, particularly as they begin to interact and form impenetrable patent thickets.

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Comments (7)

hkwint ·
Oh, my mind turns all chaotic when reading this.

Is it because Flash failed? How are they going to make profit on Adobe? Will CS for MacOS be discontinued? Will they be forced to open more Flash-protocols? Will they continue to optimize for Ubuntu / Android on ARM?

How does this rhyme with Goldman's wishes?
Bob_Robertson ·
News Flash: Microsoft to buy, rather than write, more software.

YouTube at 11:00.

tracyanne ·
As a mtter of interest, the following link comes from a set of web stats that Microsoft is using http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
tracyanne ·
The interesting thing about the stats available here is that Internet Exlorer has 31% world wide, and Linux has 4.5 to 5% world wide.
gus3 ·
Your w3schools link has an extraneous period at the end, probably intended for the sentence you typed, but included in the link by the LXer parser.

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