__/ [ Mathew P. ] on Monday 11 September 2006 20:13 \__
> On 2006-09-11, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> __/ [ Mathew P. ] on Monday 11 September 2006 10:26 \__
>>
>>> Just wondering.
>>
>> From nano, to micro, to macro. Microsoft is now a full-scale hardware
>> vendor (Xbox). And it is doing terribly well with losses exceeding 5
>> billion dollars and failure rates estimated at 30%-50%. This not only
>> affects cusotmer satisfaction (lack thereof rather), but also costs a lot
>> of money in refunds and replacements, which is damaging to the image of
>> the brand. And just wait until the next Windows ME (beta) comes out, some
>> time next year. That'll be a fatal blow to the perception is capabilities.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Roy
>
> That was, of course, a (sort of) tounge in cheeky title. But I was just
> thinking about what you mentioned in your reply before I posted; from
> nano to micro to macro. It's sad, but the HX is there; from the beginning
> of bill gates foray into the commercial computer world, He has risen
> through it by the works of others and shady (not business savvy, but out of
> the trunk, in the alley, shady) practices. The original code that became
> DOS wasn't even his and he procured it through some pretty slippery
> manuevering.
>
> This would become his business model M.O. which is a terrible waste
> in so many ways. Now it is coming back around to face him in an unavoidable
> confrontation, a bad karma showdown at the microsoft corral, so to speak.
>
> This, you see, is really what ails microsoft, and will eventually ruin
> them relegating them to a place in the market that is of little
> consequence relatively speaking.
>
> It's not Linux that will be their unavoidable undoing, it's the sins
> of the father revisiting them.
>
> Errm .... Poetic justice?
Microsoft are willing to kill security vendors -- those who saves their ass
over the years -- by closing the kernel, having full access to the source
code, and using the desktop monopoly to promote and sell their own security
products (i.e. 'bugfixes' to Windows).
Microsoft could challenge the OEM's by raising the cost an OEM must pay for
licenses and then sell hardware (e.g. modified XBox 260) for cheap. Since
Linux exists, I am not sure Microsoft can take on such abusive crusade.
Netscape...
Etc.
'Nuff said. Unethical. Rebellious. Greedy. Evil. Disruptive.
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