__/ [ AB ] on Sunday 28 January 2007 23:03 \__
> On 2007-01-28, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>> Preaching From the Ballmer Pulpit
>>
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>>| In video games, it goes up against Sony and Nintendo; in music players,
>>| Apple; in corporate software, I.B.M., Oracle and Linux.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| Yet earlier victories may not help Microsoft much today.
>>|
>>| "The world has changed, and how Microsoft adapts to that change
>>| is going to be the test of Steve Ballmer," observed Brad
>>| Silverberg, a venture capitalist and former senior Microsoft
>>| executive.
>> `----
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>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/business/yourmoney/28ballmer.html?ex=1170565200&en=fc88f6b16e451082&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS
>> http://tinyurl.com/2ekwsg
>>
>> The more pressured they feel, the more anticompetitive and deceitful (FUD)
>> they become. It has gone as far as produding an illegal (in the EU)
>> operating system and controlling information.
>
> We had a similar article show in in the Kansas City Star-Pravda today.
> Not the same story, but it raised the same sorts of things: hardware
> vendors hoping Fisted will bring them out of the doldrums, MS hopes
> that this will boost the bottom line while user enthusiasm is
> lackluster (they even used "non-existent" several times), parts about
> the Yechs-Botch and Zoo-ne not doing too hot, etc.
Microsoft has been throwing out all sorts of self-funded 'studies' and press
releases about this. It has gone on for months. Microsoft did this in Europe
(esp. to discredit the EC amid the antitrust allegations) and recently I
caught one for Massachusetts and one for New York. Microsoft-independent
folks, whose interest is a renaissance for hardware vendors, don't buy
Microsoft's promotional tosh, let alone Vista.
TSMC: Vista adoption will not boost PC sales
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| TSMC, the world's largest contract chip maker, believes PC sales
| growth in 2007 will be similar to last year, despite the hype
| surrounding the launch of Vista. The company is considered an IT
| industry bellwether due to the wide variety of chips it
| manufactures. TSMC also does its own market research in order
| to decide how much it should spend on new factories.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070125/tc_infoworld/85432
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