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Frankly Speaking: For Microsoft, the pain is just beginning
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| And Microsoft's stock? On Thursday, as Microsoft was announcing the layoffs,
| one cable-TV reporter commented that MSFT has "gone nowhere for years."
| Actually, the stock has lost nearly half its value over the past year.
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| So now, for the first time, Microsoft — like IBM 16 years ago — is resorting
| to a major layoff.
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| It won't be enough, any more than a layoff was enough for IBM.
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| Microsoft has been coasting for years on Windows and Office. Those have been
| the cash cows that enabled the company to fumble its way through years of
| halfhearted "innovation" and watered-down imitation. Microsoft has lost
| ground (or never gained a footing) in search versus Google, music players
| versus Apple, Web browsers versus Firefox.
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| Worse still, Microsoft has forgotten how to improve even those cash-cow
| products. Office 2007 is a mess for usability. Vista is a disaster in almost
| every way.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126605
Recent:
Linux leader on Microsoft woes
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| Microsoft today laid off 1,400 workers, with another 3,600 on the block
| within 18 months. We asked Linux Foundation Director Jim Zemlin what if any
| role Linux played in Microsoft's misfortunes, how Microsoft will react, and
| what it could mean for Linux and the open source community. Enjoy . . . !
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http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8154244993.html
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| 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.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090122-microsoft-sees-profits-fall-starts-layoffs.html
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| Search engines be da**ed, it's the OS that generates money - if the world
| switches to linux, it will switch to OpenOffice too.
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http://caps.fool.com/blogs/viewpost.aspx?bpid=133810&t=01008616547623863168
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| 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. When one considers
| that getting some revenue is better than getting none, that was a wise move.
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http://www.crn.com/software/212902058
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| Microsoft can't charge $80 or $100 when there's Linux for free on netbooks,"
| Rosoff said. On regular PC sales, Microsoft's profit margins are typically
| about 70 percent to 80 percent, he explained.
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http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=10537
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