Ballmer Could Learn a Lesson from Jonathan Schwartz
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| Microsoft can always try to reverse this trend by reducing their prices.
| Coincidently this is something they just announced. The problem for Microsoft
| however is not just a matter of lowering costs it is a matter of who profits
| from a PC. The numbers are clear. Microsoft has profit margins in the 30%
| range. Intel, the guys who sell the chip are in the 15% range while companies
| like Dell, Asus, Acer, and others are down in the 5% range. Something is
| fundamentally wrong. One company is making
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| We’ve seen this story before and we know how it ends. Perhaps Microsoft can
| learn a lesson from history and Sun Microsystems. The lesson is not to wait.
| If Sun had open sourced Solaris and enabled its adoption on other
| architectures sooner it may have prevented the rise of Linux. Unfortunately
| for Microsoft it may be too little too late and the reality that monopolies
| can’t last forever.
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http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2008/03/06/ballmer-could-learn-a-lesson-from-jonathan-schwartz/
Ballmer must be going bananas. Zemlin began blogging very actively for the
first time a couple of days ago.
"Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I
have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google."
--Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
Last week:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
This week:
Steve Ballmer's Nine Year Retirement Plan
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| Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft this year and the exec he left in
| charge, Steve Ballmer, is ready to leave in nine years.
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http://blogs.eweek.com/cebit/content/cebit/steve_ballmers_nine_year_retirement_plan.html
Microsoft CEO says catching Google is goal
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| Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer pledged on Thursday he will gain
| share against Google Inc in online advertising and Web searching even if it
| is in his "last breath" at the company.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSN0653295920080306
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