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The offensive Microsoft anti-Linux netbook offensive
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| Ever since the unexpected advent of netbooks – who would have expected
| low-powered computing to be such a winner – Microsoft has been working to
| push Linux out. Unlike Vista, Windows 7 will run effectively on a netbook.
| However, Microsoft have reminded us they’re a proprietary company with the
| offensive Windows 7 Starter Edition being limited to three apps only. Are
| they trying to insult us or what?
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24559/1231/
Will Microsoft blow its netbook lead with Windows 7 crippleware?
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| When netbooks first came along, they almost all ran Linux. Microsoft, which
| was stuck with the resource pig known as Windows Vista, simply couldn't
| compete. So, reluctantly, Microsoft gave Windows XP Home a new lease on life
| and sold it below cost to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to kill the
| Linux desktop at the root. For this cost, Microsoft was successful, but now
| Microsoft is about to blow it by replacing XP Home with Windows 7 Starter
| Edition, which is crippleware by any other name.
|
| Microsoft has been selling crippleware, software that's deliberately had
| features removed, for some time. The only real difference, for example,
| between XP Home and XP Pro, besides the price-tag, was that XP Home couldn't
| handle business domain or AD (Active Directory) networking. To get this one
| feature activated, millions of business users paid an average of $80 more per
| PC.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/will_microsoft_blow_its_netbook_lead_with_windows_7_crippleware
Microsoft #FAIL & news roundup
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| Digg is reported to have ended its exclusive advertising partnership with
| Microsoft over a year before it was due to expire. The deal, which began in
| 2007 was intended to be one for three years and one which Microsoft was (IMO)
| very proud of at the time.
|
| “You’ll continue to see us be aggressive in this field,” said Steve Berkowitz
| at the time.
|
| Well, you can be whatever you want. Difficult to be aggressive if youre not
| wanted though isnt it?
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/microsoft-fail-news-roundup/
Related:
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
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| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
Will Microsoft Survive the Next 10 Years?
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| I am not really an expert in this but when I read all the negative
| headlines and articles I ask myself if Microsoft really will survive
| the next 10 years.
|
| [...]
|
| I am pretty sure that the Open Source Community, the new Ubuntu,
| Google and of course Apple are those companies that are ready for
| our century and they will get more and more people that know what
| they really want.
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http://websquirrel.blogspot.com/2007/03/will-microsoft-survive-next-10-years.html
P. Graham: Microsoft is Dead
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| A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking
| to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo.
| I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of
| Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media
| company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face
| and realized he didn't understand. It was as if I'd told him how much
| girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 80s. Barry who?
|
| Microsoft? He didn't say anything, but I could tell he didn't quite
| believe anyone would be frightened of them.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
Microsoft's DreamSpark – What a Giveaway
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| The rest of the $44.6bn (£22.3bn) deal would be financed with an undisclosed
| amount of credit.
|
| What that means is that it must squeeze as much money as it can from its
| operations to fund that debt and still pay dividends to shareholders, who
| will be looking for some payback from the Yahoo takeover. Giving away
| software is the last thing it would want to do in these circumstances, and
| the DreamSpark announcement shows just how worried it is about the future.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveaway
Can Ballmer pilot Microsoft through a changed tech course?
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| Can Ballmer steer Microsoft out of the roadblocks?
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| The highly competitive Ballmer, you might say, is the man who cried "nice."
| And like the boy who cried wolf, no one believed him. The software giant's
| attempt to make nice with much of the developer community by opening up its
| APIs for key products was greeted with a jaundiced eye by regulators at the
| powerful European Commission.
|
| However sincere Microsoft's stated change of heart may be, it is becoming
| clearer and clearer that Microsoft -- which knows it has to change -- is
| still struggling to find a fresher path.
|
| What's a poor CEO to do?
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| Now that Bill Gates has effectively left the building, Ballmer is free to
| transform Microsoft, a job made all the tougher by the enormous reservoir of
| mistrust the company has engendered over the years.
|
| Case in point: the open APIs. Microsoft will give its competitors free access
| to the application programming interfaces and protocols it uses to ensure
| interoperability between its own products, a very significant change in
| business practices.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/tech-bottom-line/archives/2008/02/microsoft_open.html
EU May Fine Microsoft Over Antitrust Case, People Say
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| The fine may be announced as soon as Feb. 27, said the people, who declined
| to be identified because the decision isn't public. Microsoft said in a Jan.
| 24 U.S. regulatory filing that the penalty may be as much as 1.5 billion
| euros ($2.2 billion).
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=MSFT:US&sid=aG8SwG8llTmM
Microsoft's Last Big Beat: Internet Domination or Death
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| What can $44.6B USD mean? Well, for Microsoft (MSFT) it may mean the cost of
| survival.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/63876-microsoft-s-last-big-beat-internet-domination-or-death?source=yahoo
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