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Microsoft Must Be Absolutely Terrified

We receive a lot of mail today. In another interesting conversation it emerged that Microsoft is terrified and this fear is being recognised not only by our Web site.

As we showed before (e.g. start here and follow the references), Microsoft is running out of money and it's bluffing like nobody's business. WS08 (Server 2008, formerly known as "Longhorn") is the next Vista and we mean this in a negative way.

“Yahoo proxy wars (leading to huge irreparable PR damage), SCO's rebirth with Bill Gates' fingerprints and filing of software patents at an amazingly high rate speak volumes.”We, as BSD/Linux users and Free software advocates just need to give Microsoft that last final push and "tilt it into the death spiral" (to borrow a notorious phrase that Microsoft executives use a lot in their internal communication).

A reader of ours, the president of a medium-sized company (these tend to be the quiet readers who never comment but drop us invaluable tips in private), told us just moments ago: "It's fairly obvious that they are teetering on the edge of "the death spiral". I suspect they are actually in it, it's simply that the massive inertia of their cash-cow monopoly is covering the fact."

This comes amid times when we make speculative arguments about what turned them around and drove them to acting like bullies. Sam Hiser's assessment is based on what Joe Wilcox said yesterday. It's short and catchy.

Microsoft: still a bunch of gangsters.


Yahoo proxy wars (leading to huge irreparable PR damage), SCO's rebirth with Bill Gates' fingerprints and filing of software patents at an amazingly high rate speak volumes.

Our reader adds: "Absolutely. Fear, and the desire to move into endgame before the world slips away from them. Fear and totalitarianism always signal the end of an empire..."

We might as well think about a case of cornering an animal and the way such an animal might react. We must watch Gates because he's writing many checks in his so-called 'retirement' [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9].

This reader of ours, who is a very respectable person and a well-known figure, wishes to remain anonymous. Nonetheless, he end this discussions that we had with some strong words. "Gates' 'retirement' is simply an arms-length marketing, lobbying, bribery and extortion department. As you've pointed out yourself many times, Microsoft places loyalists in apparently 'external' organisations to achieve its aims. Gates is more involved in Microsoft's imperial ambitions than ever," he concludes.

Watch this new comment from CNET: Fool me twice, shame on me

Never ever trust Bill Gates or Microsoft. Doesn't anyone remember the great Novell and Microsoft client exchange? Microsoft then included a non-functioning NetWare client with Windows NT and made chumps out of Novell.


There is some very harsh Bill Gates critiques therein (inside the comment), which usually results in strong backlash. This typically comes from anonymous posters or those brainwashed by Gates-owned media companies. We'll explain and explore more of that shortly (in future posts that cover offshoring at Microsoft, among other dark secrets). It's all about 'Saviour Gates' with his Foundation as the ultimate moral shield. He cannot ever do any wrong, can he? Not having given away money (to make more more in the long term). Watch this space.

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