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____/ High Plains Thumper on Friday 04 Dec 2009 23:49 : \____
> Mr. Majestic wrote:
>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> High Plains Thumper on Friday:
>>>>
>>>>> Also, the public perception of Microsoft appears to have
>>>>> changed. In discussion with one co-worker from another office,
>>>>> mentioned to me that he used to have great confidence in
>>>>> Microsoft, but not any more. It was related to the
>>>>> monopolisation of the software market, lack of choice, and
>>>>> constant concerns of viral threats.
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft keeps losing key staff, most recently its CFO. They
>>>> know what's coming.
>>>
>>> Interesting. That basically happened to McDonnell Douglas
>>> Corporation in the early 1990's. By 1995, they became a company of
>>> Boeing. In summer 2005, I drove past the old workplace at 3855
>>> Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90846.
>>>
>>> All I saw were piles of demolished construction debris on the
>>> airport side of the street and a temporary construction fence
>>> around the property perimeter. Gone were the multi-story
>>> administration building, Test Hangar 41, assembly line buildings.
>>>
>>> I imagine what will happen first is Microsoft to be divided up into
>>> different companies, change owners, those unprofitable towers to
>>> be disbanded.
>>>
>>> Shades of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
>>
>> <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141606/Windows_7_steals_biggest_chunk_of_share_from_XP>
>>
>> <copied>
>> Microsoft's Windows ran to stay in place last month as Window 7's
>> market share gains made up for the largest-ever declines in Windows
>> XP and Vista, data released today by Web metrics firm Net
>> Applications showed.
>>
>> By Net Applications' numbers, Windows 7's gains were primarily at the
>> expense of Windows XP. For each copy of Vista replaced by Windows 7
>> during November, more than six copies of XP were swapped for the new
>> OS.
>> <end copy>
>
> [quote]
> Friday, December 4, 2009, 11:57am PST
> Microsoft sued in patent spat
> Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) - by Galen Moore Boston Business
> Journal
>
> A Massachusetts software company filed suit Friday in Bostonâs District
> Court against Microsoft Corp., claiming the Redmond software giant
> infringed its patent on a business method for extracting data from
> spreadsheets.
>
> Founded in 2000 by Robert Handsaker and Gregory Rasin, Belmont,
> Mass.-based NetView Technologies Inc. is a business-software maker whose
> flagship product is a product designed to manage employee incentives by
> tracking sales, sales quotas and compensation. The companyâs software
> uses Microsoftâs widely popular Excel spreadsheet product.
>
> NetViewâs lawsuit alleges Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) infringed a 2007
> patent titled âSystem and Method for Efficiently and Flexibly Utilizing
> Spreadsheet Information,â which was originally applied for in 2003.
> [/quote]
>
> http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/11/30/daily41.html
>
> [quote]
> Datel Launches Microsoft Lawsuit
> Dan Howdle 10:18, Tuesday 24 November 2009
>
> Microsoft's latest dashboard update nullifies Datel accessories. Datel
> fights back...
>
> Third-party accessory manufacturer Datel has launched an antitrust
> lawsuit against Microsoft following the companyâs recent dashboard
> update which includes a nullification of all third-party memory cards.
>
> The excuse, such as it is, offered by Microsoft in explanation of the
> move is the pretext that third-party memory accessories enable cheating.
> There are currently approximately 50,000 Datel units in circulation and
> according to Datel founder Mike Connors, Microsoftâs official unit
> âoffers only one-quarter the memory while listing for the same retail
> price".
>
> âNo visible purpose other than to have that market entirely to themselves.â
>
> Speaking to GamesSpot, he continued: "Microsoft has taken steps to
> render inoperable the competing Datel memory card for no visible purpose
> other than to have that market entirely to themselves."
> [/quote]
>
> http://xbox-360.nowgamer.com/news/1827/datel-launches-microsoft-lawsuit
Microsoft is under _more than 50_ patent lawsuits at the moment. Heaps of money are depleted in
this department, which recently saw layoffs and budget cuts.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
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