Re: Microsoft is in deep trouble and now it is going to die

Derek Currie wrote:
In article <2007042120510316807-jcrnospam@nospammaccom>,
John C. Randolph <jcr.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 04/21/07, cathead9 <cathead9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39087

...at long last. Microsoft is destined to be remembered this way:
"Hey, remember that company that made a buttload of money with all that crappy software back in the stone age of computing?"

- cathead, vox et praeteria nihil.
I don't see them dying, but rather following a path much like IBM in the 1980's. Their stock will lose around 30 to 40 percent of its value, and eventually the institutional shareholders will vote Ballmer out. It may be far too late to turn the company around by that point, but MS has enough cash to just buy a couple of viable software businesses.

I agree John. Good points.

Can you believe Tom Elam called someone else 'delusional'? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I really wanted to post to encourage folks to read this article. The Inquirer are clearly tongue-in-cheek in this article. It has to be the most hilarious thing I have read all day. But it also DARES to make the critical point that Vista is indeed so bad that it deserves comparison the failure of Windows ME:

Microsoft admits Vista failure Actions speak louder than PR
By Charlie Demerjian in Beijing: Saturday 21 April 2007, 12:20

WITH TWO OVERLAPPING events, Microsoft admitted what we have been saying all along, Vista, aka Windows Me Two (Me II), is a joke that no one wants.

. . .

What happened is the OEMs revolted in the background and forced Microsoft's hand. This is a big neon sign above Me II saying 'FAILURE'. Blink blink blink.

. . .

The other equally monumental Me II failure? Gates in China launching a $3 version of bundled Me II. Why is this not altruism? Well, it goes back to piracy and how it helped enforce the MS monopoly. If you can easily pirate Windows, Linux has no price advantage, they both cost zero.

You know Bill Gates is absolutely desperate when he has to sustain market share by literally giving away his POS.

I personally am expecting a nicely steady growth of the Mac market share as Windows XP antiquates and people want something more modern and effective to which to turn. It's not Vista. It is a Microsoft-Free alternative.

:-D


You know, it's utterly hilarious sitting here sipping my morning coffee reading the hysterical ramblings of a couple of armchair generals, talking about MS as if its market share and mind share was steadily declining, indicating, in their mind, some kind of impending doom for MS.

BTW, what most Mac zealots have been wanting and praying for for years is a nice steady growth [sic] of the Mac. What we're getting, in reality, is a company that, by all indications, might actually be putting its computer/OS division on the back burner and morphing into Apple-gadgets Inc.

Another hilarious observation is when Mac zealots declare BMW this and Porche that and that market share isn't really important when all at the same time they cream their collective pants when OS x's market share jumps from 4.1 % to 4.1.00005%.

And Bill Gates is the least desperate man on the face of this Earth. And Vista will be adopted by all Windows users in due time, just as OS X was adopted when Apple transitioned us from 9.x to NeXT.

But thanks for the laughs, Derek;)

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Nicolas
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