____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 March 2008 22:12 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Doug Mentohl on Thursday 06 March 2008 12:06 : \____
>>
>>> On 3 Mar, 19:41, Erik Funkenbusch
>>>
>>>> I've been here for about 10 years, because for about 10 years (off and on)
>>>> i've been trying to use Linux as a desktop and ..
>>>
>>> LIAR, you've been trolling a Linux group for about ten years because
>>> your paymaster in Redmond pays you to do it.
>>>
>>> Before Linux you were an OS 2 advocate. It seems you only 'like'
>>> things until they are no threat to the Vole .. :)
>>>
>>> '"In case you haven't noticed, I do very little bashing of OS/2, and
>>> only then when an OS/2 advocate appears to be spouting the "OS/2
>>> utopia" party line"'
>>>
>>> "I like OS/2, I always have", Erik FUD Dec 1997
>>>
>>> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.os.os2.advocacy/msg/7a6fc385dd4b3bdc
>>
>> Don't worry. The Microsoft won't last for long and they will get more
>> aggressive just before they dues. Microsoft is running out of money and has
>> very little in terms of assets it can sell.
>>
>
> It's assets are, in my view, massively over-valued. It's not as if
> they're a telco with all that copper, fibre, buildings, switches and
> so on, or a manufacturer with fabs, or a chip designer with R&D labs
> and designs under their belt. They remain a software house, pushing
> 3rd rate code with 1st-rate lock-in and marketing, 3rd-rate security
> and reliability.
>
> I don't think that Microsoft will be able to recover from the Vista
> disaster.
The problem began earlier than Vista (or the Longhorn "development
collapse"/"reboot", to use Microsoft's own description of it). Microsoft
suffered huge losses (18 billion, IIRC) when Gates stepped down as CEO.
Ballmer, being the envious crazed man that he is, burned money trying to be
the best of everything. How's the XBox 360 doing? Still 4th out of 4? Where
has the Zune gone? The press hasn't written about it in _months_.
It's worth looking ahead and identifying other Microsoft-like abuse. Intel, for
starters, with its endless corruption, briberies and bullying of charities,
deserves a good look.
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