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[Parody:] Press reports dazzling quarter for Microsoft
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| The world’s largest software maker said it had been affected by weakness in
| the global personal computer and server markets, particularly by having to
| sell Windows XP for $5 to keep netbooks from going entirely Linux.
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http://notnews.today.com/2009/07/24/press-reports-dazzling-quarter-for-microsoft/
Microsoft Profit down 17% on Ubuntu, Google, Apple threats
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| Microsoft profit is down 17%, and cited is long term threats that are
| materializing on it’s doorstep, Ubuntu Linux and Apple and the newly
| announced Google OS
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| Ubuntu Linux has been making serious inroads in the netbook market as a
| desktop of choice for many lower powered machines called netbooks, The Google
| OS is vaporware for now… but the threat exists.
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http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=5524
Crashing PC sales send Microsoft profits tumbling
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| But there are other challenges abroad which the firm has dealt with rather
| less effectively – the effects of competition and the changing nature of the
| IT business to name but two. Its Windows operating system may still reign
| supreme numerically, but for how much longer? It faces two serious
| challenges, firstly from the various homemade flavours of Linux-based OS’s
| out there, and secondly from arch-rival Google, which is developing its own
| PC operating system to go head-to-head with Windows.
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| Linux is free to use already, and the Google system is likely to be so, too.
| So the $64m question is, how much longer will MS be able to go on selling
| very expensive OS’s and equally expensive applications when its key rivals
| will offer 80% of the functionality, and cost next to nothing?
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http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/channel/HumanCapital/news/922722/crashing-pc-sales-send-microsoft-profits-tumbling/
Microsoft faces new threat as portable devices open doors
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| It is six years since Steve Ballmer issued a wake-up call to Microsoft's
| developers, warning of the threat posed by the Linux operating system and
| other open source projects.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8eab2826-7720-11de-b23c-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F8eab2826-7720-11de-b23c-00144feabdc0.html&_i_referer=
Related:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| 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
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