Totally got sick of Microsoft;
been using Ubuntu for about one year..
Great set of apps !
On Apr 23, 6:32 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> Posted in Finance, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 4:32 pm by Roy Schestowitz
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> Summary: Serious disaster unleashed in Redmond today as net earnings drop by a
> third
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> AS ALWAYS, Microsoft is using its people in the press to hide the severity of
> this, but bloggers are not as stupid and obedient as Microsoft needs them to
> be. GNU/Linux has cracked Microsoft's margins and it shows. In the firstquarter, Ars Technica wrote: “Client software felt the slump in PC sales, and
>
> was further harmed by the shift to netbooks; many of these run Linux, which
> helps Microsoft not at all.” CRN wrote: “Microsoft, like much of the IT
> industry, was caught off-guard by the rapid rise of the netbook category, but
> moved quickly to offer a netbook-specific version of XP Home to stem the tide
> of Linux on netbooks.”
>
> - From the Microsoft-sympathetic press arrives mostly spin that excuses revenue
> drops.
>
> With such a sharp dive in profit, Microsoft may find it hard to justify keeping
> the current size of its workforce. Rumours of further layoffs [1, 2] which
> Microsoft did not deny make more sense now, but the market closed shortly
> after these results were published, so it may take a day (or a few) to find
> out what Microsoft will do next. █
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