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Four of Microsoft's seven business divisions , promising an affordable Linux operating system with full Microsoft's Windows compatibility.
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ugly ripped of interface, M$ is getting a taste of their own medicine
not worried too much about Bill...he will be fine. He will steal some other ideas, buy some companies, strenghten his monopoly and will be set again.
FYI, Bill's not doing bad at all.. only 4 loosing divisions is pretty damn good for possibly the world's largest company.. and M$ has 40 Billion.. yes 40 BILLION in the Bank.. dwarfing virtually every other company, and country for that matter, in the world.. M$ ain't going anywhere, will never be hurting, and, unfortuanely, will always be on top..
That said M$ and gates are theives, are completely unoriginal, and only retain their position by dirty, underhanded business pratictices..
" FYI, Bill's not doing bad at all.. only 4 loosing divisions is pretty damn good for possibly the world's largest company"
What? So how many losing divisions constitutes doing badly? 4 of 7 sounds pretty bad to me and 40 billion wont last long with there overhead if revenues keep dropping.
I read somewhere (probably Slashdot) that economists call what MS is doing (using two profitable products to prop up all the others) as "monopoly rents."
According to the article I read, if MS were to kill off XBox, MSN, MSNBC and all the other money-losing operations that have not made a dime even after several years of effort, they could afford to sell Microsoft Office for $45 and still make a healthy profit. The difference between Office's average $300 pricetag and $45 is what they call "monopoly rent." IOW, they couldn't be doing this if they weren't abusing their monopoly.
WE (and much more so PC users) are paying really big bucks to support proven money-losers and very poor management. I think this report could be the beginning of the end for the company (an end that will of course take a decade or more to play out, mind you). You can count on some shareholder lawsuits over this practice.
If we had a Justice Dept. that wasn't under the thumb of Uberfürher Ashcroft and the "pro-business, anti-consumer" Bush administration, I would have said we can expect a bevy of gov't lawsuits as well, but of course that won't happen. Maybe California or Florida will sue. We can only hope.
Oh, and while I am very firmly anti-piracy, I just want to point out that MS complaining about being ripped off is the very height of hubris and hypocrisy.
Anyone who thinks Lindows is a viable alternative to Windows needs their head examined. That's like saying a single stem cell is a viable alternative to a baby.
Mac OS X is rapidly emerging as one of the very few truly viable alternatives to Windows. Remember how great we all thought System 6/7 was when it was clearly better than where DOS/Windows was at the time?
Give Mac OS X half that many years of development (and a little luck in the chip dept) and we will be that far ahead of Windows again.
first it was our software that was meh, now its our hardware and the software is top notch. oh well rahter it that
billions in cash and $150/billion a year revenue (that's 5 times Microsoft's) and it still went out of business in under three months.
M$ may have money in the bank, but it has no businesses of any value with the exception of pricing gouging through the Office and Windows monopoly, a monopoly that is shortly to be replaced by free products.
I wonder how sales of Office for Mac played into this. I know they complained about "slow adoption," but at such a hefty price, the margins on those sales must have been huge.
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lindows... unoriginal
don't get me wrong. i hope they have redmond scared poopless, but geez, between the name and the fact that they are ape-ing apple's own web site look for those "glassy tabs" on their website.
'course, that seems to be a growing trend among web sites and software companies these days - aqua-fy or die!