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Microsoft: Whistling in the Dark

Apple is fighting a generational war and it is winning. The blueprint was laid out by Toyota when it stalked GM for 30+ years. Target the younger demographic and keep catering to them until they reach their prime income-earning years. By that time they will be populating corporate America and will be driving purchasing decisions.

Microsoft is not a technology company. It's primary skill is not in the design of software, neither is it in marketing said (crappy) software. Microsoft's primary skill is in the acquisition, perpetuation and extension of monopoly power through shrewd contracting, timely acquisition of crucial products and technologies, and downright coercion. That they are in the software business is an accident of history. Software just proved to be, at that moment in history, the industry most conducive to monopolization. A century ago, the perch held by Microsoft as the hegemonistic monopolist was held by Standard Oil.

And like Standard Oil, Microsoft's monopoly will persist only if the feds look the other way and let them get away with illegal acts.

Microsoft: Whistling in the Dark

What a dumb post. GM used to have a dominant position in the auto market too. Once upon a time all cash registers were made by NCR.


On Aug 13 01:00 PM jack dee wrote:

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> Windows has 95% of the global market
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> Apple has a little less than 4%.
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> THese are simply the facts , all of the big market watchers agree
> with these numbers.
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> (prove me wrong with a link to CURRENT global stats, and no silly
> metrics from fan sites. ).
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> Now sorry I know you apple fanboys get all cranky when someone posts
> the FACTS, but remember most people on the planet dont even know
> apple exists.
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> windows is deeply entrenched , and is only getting deeper, Azure
> xbox win7 office servers all look great.

On Yahoo/ Microsoft: Jerry Yang Should Be Fired

Umm, if Yang deserves to be fired, then Steve Hamlet Ballmer deserves to have his a** kicked to the next planet. He got totally outplayed in this. Again, it's been laid bare that Hamlet Ballmer HAS NO CLEAR VISION where he wants to take Msft. First Y! was crucial to their future, then it's not. I bet he was just so glad that Yang gave him the excuse to walk away from this deal which was thoroughly ill-conceived in the first place. That's the one smart thing that he'll ever have done as MS CEO.

I ask again, other than be Bill Gates' college buddy, what has Steve Ballmer ever done that qualifies him for his current job?

Microsoft Should Fire Steve Ballmer, or Hire SuperNanny. Or Both.

So are people finally beginning to figure out that Steve Ballmer's only qualification for his current job is that he was Bill Gates' college buddy?

What It Would Take To Fix Microsoft For Me

The software division should be further split into two independent companies: operating systems and applications.