____/ Linonut on Sunday 24 February 2008 21:16 : \____
> * nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>>> I'm not sure about the "lethal" part. It's not like
>>> they're dead yet, though I'll admit I wonder how long this
>>> sort of nonsense can continue....
>>
>>> And Microsoft continues to be hugely profitable.
>>
>> I agree, but the profits come from Windows and Office, not consumer
>> electronics, which is what the article was concerned with. I agree,
>> too, that it remains to be seen how big a wound this (and these)
>> defeats in consumer electronics space will be for Microsoft in the
>> end. But an interesting point of the article was that the Microsoft
>> way of business, ie using Windows' monopoly position to lock in
>> markets, has failed in consumer electronics. And a number of
>> commentaries on the Yahoo deal say that Microsoft is betting the farm
>> on it, they're doing it because they know they can't go on forever
>> like they have been (coasting on Windows and Office, which may be
>> doing very well now but which also face credible threats).
>
> I wonder who the next museum lecturer will be? (See the sig).
>
> "Microsoft has had competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have
> museums to document this stuff."
> -- Bill Gates, in a talk at the Computer History Museum
> in Mountain View, Calif.
Yes, I wondered about that recently as well. It's amusing when one's ego is so
big that he can envision omnipotence for a period of like what... 30 years
ahead? Even IBM didn't make it. Like IBM, it's in trouble, but I couldn't care
much less. Both companies could use some toppling and both have abused in the
past. The same goes for Siemens, which thrives in endless briberies. Hopefully
the honest and transparent ones can replace the Boiler Room Companies.
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