The Year of Living Nervously for Microsft, Airbus
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| Airbus and Microsoft both spent the year wrestling with
| make-or-break-the-business mega-projects (the A380 and Windows Vista,
| respectively) upon which the lives of people around the world will
| depend in the coming year.
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| Microsoft: Losing Customers since 1999
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| For Vista users, the question is probably academic. Microsoft has
| a long history of making early adopters its de-facto beta-testing
| force. I think we've all sort of reached the point where we expect
| Microsoft operating systems to ship with problems.
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| On the other hand, more than any other time in Microsoft's recent
| history, Vista is being released to a growing crowd of skeptics.
| Genuine alternatives exist for servers (any of a dozen flavors of
| Linux, Xserve, etc.) and for desktops (OS X Tiger/Leopard, Ubuntu
| and its cousins) that together make up the most severe challenge
| Microsoft has faced since it launched Windows two decades ago.
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| No, Microsoft will not stop being the market leader overnight -
| there are just too many enterprises held captive by Windows-loyal
| system administrators and CTOs, and too many people who use
| computers who are willing to accept a mediocre desktop experience.
| But today, more than ever, there are a growing number of people
| who are ready to walk away.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070103/23406_id.html?.v=1
This is rare. Mainstream press is usually discussing companies and their
products (e.g. Apple).
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