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Can Microsoft innovate? Should we care?
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| But we don’t need an innovative Microsoft. Simple competence would be
| improvement enough.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=370
Recent:
Why Ubuntu Now Beats Vista
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| Last month, Canonical launched Ubuntu 8.10 with significant new features and
| performance upgrades over previous versions. But what is becoming
| increasingly clear is that the free, downloadable operating system has in
| many critical ways caught or surpassed Microsoft's flagship desktop operating
| system -- and poses a significant threat to the software giant if the market
| catches on.
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http://www.crn.com/software/212201252
The sound of empire falling
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| There’s another problem. Vista is so dead that Microsoft is already touting
| its successor “System 7". Not end-of-lifing XP on schedule means they’ll
| actually have to support three different operating systems for at least the
| years until System 7 ships, and some time afterward. Even Microsoft is going
| to feel the strain, and ISVs are likely to play safe by writing to the
| minimum (XP) specification.
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http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=647
Windows 7 doomed by economic outlook
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| Microsoft CEO, the shy and retiring, softly spoken Steve Ballmer admitted
| that this was happening and seems to be slowly walking away from Vista.
|
| [...]
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| It could be that this will be the moment for Linux to make its long awaited
| rise to fame. If firms want to cut costs but upgrade hardware then Linux
| ideas are probably the only way to go forward. Indeed some companies will be
| able to keep their older hardware for a bit longer.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/20/windows-doomed-economic-outlook
Windows 7’s biggest threat: journalists
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| ZDNET.MICROSOFT.COM, Blogosphere.NET, Wednesday (NNGadget) — As Microsoft
| continues to prepare for the 2009 2010 launch of Windows 7, it today issued a
| plea through its network of objective opinion-shapers: Don’t let the
| journalists near it.
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| Microsoft MSDN software disk scarecrow in cornfield“We understand that many
| journalists use Macs,” said CNet marketing marketer Don Reisinger. “This
| means they necessarily suckle at the Satanic rear passage of Steve Jobs. We
| cannot countenance their bias. Journalists are responsible for all those
| signs outside computer shops offering to replace Vista with XP. When was the
| last time you saw the entire technology field stop and wait for an
| announcement from any other company besides Apple? It’s so unfair!”
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http://notnews.today.com/2008/11/12/windows-7s-biggest-threat-journalists/
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