THE living disaster known as Vista 8 has thrown Microsoft into a tailspin and a lot of media spin. A personal piece from a widely-read paper dismantles Microsoft by stating: "IT IS always fun to watch the mighty fall. It is even better when they try to break their fall with corporate waffle. This week Microsoft said it was rethinking “key aspects” of its new operating system, Windows 8. But then it began to obfuscate. A Microsoft executive insisted that “customer satisfaction” with the new offering “is strong” while also conceding that “the learning curve is definitely real”. (Translation: customers are tearing out their hair and scattering it on the keyboard.)"
"The above article is titled suitably, stating that Vista 8 is only the beginning of Microsoft's problems."The article is worth reading. It is quite good.
We recently showed that Microsoft goes down the same road as Enron (with Goldman Sachs lady as CFO). The above article is titled suitably, stating that Vista 8 is only the beginning of Microsoft's problems. ⬆
"Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded that year, plus the change in the value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a loss of $18 billion, according to Smithers."
--The Economist, 1999
Comments
Needs Sunlight
2013-05-29 17:12:28
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/07/microsofts-first-ever-loss-doesnt-faze/
Sadly, they are able to bluff their way through many situations and in many others their power is political and ideological more than economic.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2013-05-29 17:20:16
lozz
2013-05-29 21:14:46
By that stage OpenOffice must have been cutting into their other major cash stream, as well.
They were certainly dunning taxpayers with major government contracts gained through corruption.
Australia was just one example of that. We're only just deciding that odf might be a better option, now.