Comments

• aeshna23

  2008-11-14 01:23:27

  Let's hope that Microsoft is not profitable and that it's not in a position to fight. It's a little hard for me to understand how a company that has such market dominance is losing money. It shows quite a incompetence of the Microsoft leadership if this is the case. And yes Bill Gates could have been incompetent at running a large company even if he was shrewd at starting a large company. They are different skills. In fact, Gates has a far better excuse than Ballmer has now.

• G. Michaels

  2008-11-14 02:11:49

  Is this 'aeshna23' another twitter sockpuppet? Only Roy knows, since he has access to the Apache logs and IP addresses.
  
  Roy's close collaborator just today was organizing another shill thread and referring to himself in the third person:
  
  http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1028845&cid=25755391
  
  More information on the disruption of Slashdot can be found here:
  
  http://slashdot.org/~SockDisclosure/journal/214377
  
  Note: writer of this comment adds absolutely nothing but stalking and personal attacks against readers, as documented here.

• Michael

  2008-11-14 04:11:15

  MSFT (and NOVL) isn't tracking really much different from the rest of the market ... I wouldn't want to have my money in anything right now. Things are looking pretty bad generally - there will be plenty of lay-offs everywhere in the next 6 months.
  
  GMichaels - I don't think anyone cares? Slashdot has been gamed so much it is no longer worth reading. One more individual who pointlessly bothers hardly makes a difference. Cyber-stalking and slanderous accusations aren't very appealing either.

• Linux

  2008-11-14 07:31:20

  Google has sank from 700 to 300 in a year. Nothing new ..

• Needs Sunlight

  2008-11-14 08:35:55

  @aeshna23: MS probably is not profitable. Gates bailed as CEO in 1998 when the company ran a loss. Enron-style record keeping has kept the investors in the dark since then.
  
  Regarding Ballmer, he's never seemed qualified to be manager of anything let alone a high executive of a large company. His main qualification was having a college buddy that could hook him up with a cushy job.
  
  @Roy: can you just delete comments and accounts that yammer against Twitter? They're just part of the "saturate" phase of the MS marketing tactic "saturate, diffuse and confuse"

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-11-14 08:43:33

  Needs Sunlight,
  
  We never delete any comments, but I'd considered rubbing off portions of the comments that are off-topic personal attacks on readers.