Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:42:59 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> How Much is Too Much?
>>
>> ,----[ Summary ]
>>| Microsoft says it will stick with Xbox. But with years of heavy losses
>>| behind it, the pressure's on for the gaming division to make good
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2006/id20061013_283856.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories
>> http://tinyurl.com/yxdr4j
>>
>> Related:
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>> Microsoft stoic despite massive losses
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>>| If you were to judge by the PR rhetoric, you'd think the 360 was
>>| an unstoppable commercial juggernaut. As usual though, PR lies.
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>> http://www.gamerscan.com/articles/06/10/09/microsofts.massive.losses/
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>> Microsoft Hides Its Mobile and Business Apps Divisions
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>>| The company is folding its two worst-performing divisions -- Microsoft
>>| Business Solutions (its business applications unit) and its Mobile and
>>| Embedded units -- into the Microsoft Business Division and Microsoft
>>| Home and Entertainment units, respectively.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1990243,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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>> Gamers Say Microsoft Understates Xbox Problems
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>>| An insider from Electronic Arts, Inc. is saying that the failure rate
>>| of Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console is actually ten times higher than
>>| what Microsoft spokespeople have admitted.
>>|
>>| Game Daily BIZ, a gaming industry publication, reported that the
>>| anonymous source tallied that of the 300 consoles EA has received,
>>| 30-50 percent of them have failed.
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>> http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/08/xbox_gamers02.html
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>> Game Sales Jump, Despite Xbox Slump
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>>| Regardless of what happens this holiday season, August represented yet
>>| another month of disappointing sales for Microsoft's Xbox 360. Pachter
>>| for one had predicted that the company would sell between 200,000 and
>>| 300,000 consoles last month, but the sales came in at the bottom of
>>| that range, according to the NPD data he cited.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/techstockupdate/10308023.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
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>> The Secret Failures of Microsoft
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>>| There is no choice involved; even most Linux users are forced to pay for
>>| a Microsoft license in order to obtain a brand name PC.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| They are bound to an oath to swear allegiance to Windows XP
>>| Professional, and must never mention Linux and Windows in the same
>>| breath. If they step out of line in any way, Microsoft dramatically
>>| raises their OEM licensing fees and sends them to indoctrination camp,
>>| where they face chairs being hurled at them by angry monkeys.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| Why do Windows enthusiasts exibit much hostility to an obvious fact?
>>| Because if they admit that 80% of the company's revenues come entirely
>>| from an OEM tax, and not from any choice on the part of consumers...
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| Microsoft's decade of investments in WinCE and Windows Mobile
>>| Smartphones have only barely matched the market share of Palm, which
>>| itself is a run down company out of ideas. Microsoft couldn't
>>| out-maneuver the incompetent Palm within a decade of trying; now both
>>| are ineffectually fighting over the dying PDA industry while Linux and
>>| Symbian slaughter them in the smartphone arena:
>>|
>>| Symbian 75%; Linux 14%; Microsoft 5%; Palm 5%.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| (many more failures listed)
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/2E6D9BB2-FE1B-4556-8389-67BD581FBCCC.html
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> What does any of this have to do with Linux?
It shows how the darkside, microsoft, hurts more than the lightside, Linux.
Good enough for me... let it continue.
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Jerry McBride
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