__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Saturday 21 April 2007 01:29 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron Quark
> <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:35:07 +0200
> <87d51ysmhw.fsf@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Richard Rasker <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Op Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:43:12 +0100, schreef [H]omer:
>>>
>>>> Forgot the obligatory screenshot:
>>>>
>>>> http://media.slated.org/albums/userpics/Feisty-Fawn.png
>>>
>>> Microsoft is dead. The only problem is that 95% of the world hasn't got
>>> round to reading the obituary yet.
>>>
>>> Richard Rasker
>>
>> People insisting on XP rather than vista is hardly MS being "dead".
>>
>
> Microsoft is quite lively. It's their products which should be shot
> dead. :-P :-)
It is no longer a S/W company [1], but all the cash cows are software.
Anything other than software is a colossal budget drainer and it shows [2].
Linux, Google and the OpenDocument Alliance will 'cut off the air supply',
which will make thge perfect comeback [3]. Microsoft endless buybacks and
budget drain [2] will leave it heading for the sewer.
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[1] Scott Bellware [MVP]: Microsoft is No Longer Software Company...
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| Microsoft simply isn't in the business of making software anymore.
| It's only in the business of being in business. Pretending to be
| a software company is just a front.
|
| Oh to be president of the board for just one day...
|
| I'm trying to get a free PDF printer installed on Vista...
| What was I thinking? Everyone knows that this kind of functionality
| is only available in some distant future science fiction version of
| Vista... or Windows XP. I think I'm about to become a lover of
| antiques... or Macs.
`----
http://codebetter.com/blogs/scott.bellware/archive/2007/04/17/161949.aspx
[2] Software Notebook: Microsoft's cash pile isn't what it used to be
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| But Microsoft has taken a series of steps to reduce its cash
| balance. Specifically, by Microsoft's count, the company has
| paid out nearly $100 billion through dividends and repurchasing
| its own stock in the past five years.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/309852_software02.html
[3]
Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
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| The States' remedy hearing opened in DC yesterday, and States attorney
| Steven Kuney produced a devastating memo from Kempin, then in charge of
| Microsoft's OEM business, written after Judge Jackson had ordered his
| break-up of the company. Kempin raises the possibility of threatening
| Dell and other PC builders which promote Linux.
|
| "I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux.
| ... they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what is
| sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut off
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| the air supply") with which Microsoft enriched the English language in the
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| first trial. Unlike those two, this is not contested.
|
| [...]
|
| Earlier memos described that it was "untenable" that a key Microsoft
| partner was promoting Linux. Kuney revealed that Dell disbanded its Linux
| business unit in early 2001. Dell quietly pulled Linux from its desktop PCs
| in the summer of 2001, IDG's Ashlee Vance discovered subsequently, six
| months after we heard Michael Dell declare his love of Linux on the desktop
| the previous winter.
|
| Compaq was also mentioned in other memos, with Microsoft taking the line
| that OEMs should "meet demand but not help create demand" for Linux.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
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