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Is the party over for Microsoft?
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| Everyone knew the day would come when the fortunes of Microsoft Corp. would
| reverse. The company might now be in actual decline.
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| I could go on with home-automation initiatives, phone operating systems, pen
| computers (two shots at that market), page-layout programs, Web-design tools
| and on and on -- all shiny objects for a company that doesn't want to
| actually fill a need, but jump from one idea to the next.
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| What's shocking is that the cash cows, specifically the Windows operating
| system and the Office suite, have managed to finance all these idiotic
| efforts for so many years. While Microsoft's profits and sales were way down
| this last quarter, it is only a matter of time before losses begin. Read more
| about the disappointing earnings.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-the-party-over-for-microsoft-2009-07-24
There's a future for Microsoft (toys):
Microsoft Barney Actimates
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Barney-Actimates/dp/B000AQOH2Q
Another Microsoft product delayed (at least not canceled like many others):
Microsoft delays music streaming service
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/5949549/Microsoft-delays-music-streaming-service.html
Recent:
Dvorak Likes Linux
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| Every so often I take a stab at Linux, to see exactly what I like and do not
| like about the OS. Many of its problems, for me, stem from its inability to
| run on my overloaded hardware, or the occasional driver that makes the OS
| impossible to use without hand-tweaking something or other. That said, I
| seriously like the Ubuntu 8.10 implementation and will now install it
| permanently on my latest machines. It's a winner.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342703,00.asp
Microsoft cannot be trusted!
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| How many times has this sort of presumptuous crap rolled out the backdoor of
| Redmond? Iâve used Microsoft software since 1983. And though there are
| additional reasons for my disaffection and departure from the realm â Iâve
| replaced every remaining Microsoft product in my possession with something
| better in recent years â this sort of quasi-criminal behavior stands alone as
| reason enough.
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http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/05/30/microsoft-cannot-be-trusted/
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