____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 26 January 2008 09:54 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 25 January 2008 16:12 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Hotmail doesn't work with Firefox 2.0: Microsoft answers to Linux users
>>>> "Switch to Outlook Express"
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| I?m the increasingly discontent owner of an Hotmail account (don?t
>>>>| laught, I subscribed back when Hotmail wasn?t owned by Microsoft).
>>>>| Recently, in order to compete with Google on the Web, Hotmail?s interface
>>>>| was overhauled: it now has a ?classic? interface, which works reasonably
>>>>| well but is still rather limited, and a supposedly ?Full? interface that
>>>>| should make it the equal of sites like Google Apps and Yahoo
>>>>| Mail/Calendar/etc.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>>
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/hotmail_doesnt_work_with_firefox_2
>>>
>>> Since anything up to 50% of people are using Firefox, Microsoft are
>>> essentially eliminating themselves from a massive potential userbase.
>>> Any normal company would never consider taking such short-sighted
>>> action. Microsoft still seem to be chasing the "monopoly" dream, which
>>> I believe is now going to elude them forever.
>>
>> They lose $billions in their online division, IIRC. Microsoft is hurting and
>> the financial figures are a case of bluffing. I'll post something about this
>> shortly.
>>
>
> Sooner or later they will not be able to continue with share buy-backs,
> and the poor state of their businesses will start to become clear. At
> that point, I expect that they will reorganise, so that it becomes
> impossible to determine what's really going on.
There are the dividends too. I posted about it in BN. They are bluffing like
there's no tomorrow. Several people are aware of this.
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