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Closing the Door to Microsoft Vista
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| General Motors (GM) may take a detour around Vista, the latest computer
| operating system from Microsoft (MSFT).
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2008/tc20080512_157155.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+story
Seems more like an advertisement for Win7apourware, but it's BusinessWeek, so
bias is to be expected. Microsoft lost touch with its key business, which is
declining. Unlike Google, which is still gaining in search...
'The biggest threat is internal'
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| What type of internal threats?
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| The simple one is the threat of distraction. I'll give you an example. You
| could imagine that Google Apps [the company's Web-based package of
| word-processing, spreadsheet and e-mail programs that mimics Microsoft's
| Office franchise] taking over 90 percent of our time. We don't allow that
| because we're disciplined about spending a lot of time on our core
| businesses. We hope at some point Google Apps will become a core business,
| but today it's not, so [that's] a threat of distraction.
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/13/technology/lashinsky_schmidt.fortune/
Recent:
Microsoft sees slide in profits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7366106.stm
Microsoft Profit Drops; Forecast May Miss Estimates
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| The world's biggest software maker said sales of Windows for PCs sank 24
| percent and revenue from its online advertising unit came in at the low end
| of its projections. Microsoft's report contrasted with positive comments from
| chipmaker Intel Corp. and computer company International Business Machines
| Corp.
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft declined $1.60 to $30.20 in extended trading after closing at
| $31.80 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The stock has
| fallen 11 percent this year.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aQ7_iN1SxJ.c&refer=worldwide
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