Image Gallery: Will Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child be a problem for
Microsoft?
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| After all, at the same time Microsoft is launching new versions of
| its flagship operating system and office suite, it is getting
| challenged on numerous fronts. There's all the big Googlesque
| money behind Web-based suites. There's the OpenDocument Format
| (that's threatening to ameliorate the addictive parts of
| Microsoft Office).
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| And then there's the OLPC. Microsoft has at times said that the
| international market is one of the growth areas with the most
| potential for its business. But what if millions of kids are
| growing up on Linux. Doesn't that create just the slightest
| disposition towards a non-Microsoft operating system?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=369
Gordon has already talked about Microsoft new attack plan on Linux. It would
never work though because people rarely paid for Windows in the first.
I.T.'s Top 81 R&D Spenders
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| A burst of investing in 2006 was mostly aimed at shoring up existing
| product lines and was concentrated among the biggest firms, like
| Microsoft, Intel and Google.
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| [...]
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| The biggest spender was Microsoft, with $6.58 billion. The software
| giant was an exception in that a lot of its R&D spending was devoted
| to new products aimed at businesses, including Office 2007 and the
| Vista operating system. But Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft also
| plowed significant sums into its Xbox 360 gaming console and Internet
| search.
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http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2115265,00.asp
Microsoft significantly raised its spendings last year, only to see its
profits sliding. Without a cash cow (now at great danger), it would report
stunning loses (every new project seems like a huge flop).
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