Comments on: Thanking Microsoft for Another Product Cut http://techrights.org/2010/11/25/whs-suppressed-or-marginalised/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/11/25/whs-suppressed-or-marginalised/comment-page-1/#comment-104082 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:27:53 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=42375#comment-104082 They don’t buy companies now, Google does. :-)

]]> By: The Mad Hatter http://techrights.org/2010/11/25/whs-suppressed-or-marginalised/comment-page-1/#comment-104080 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:10:01 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=42375#comment-104080 Let’s face it. If you hear Microsoft is interested in your company, the price automatically triples, because you know there’s lot of others would be interested too.

And of course, who wants to be purchased by a pack of incompetents? That’s the reputation they have now.

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/11/25/whs-suppressed-or-marginalised/comment-page-1/#comment-104077 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:26:55 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=42375#comment-104077 They have just spent a lot of money buying many patents rather than buying software/companies (Microsoft has not acquired any major company in a very long time, maybe since that Bing-related acquisition).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerset_%28company%29

]]> By: The Mad Hatter http://techrights.org/2010/11/25/whs-suppressed-or-marginalised/comment-page-1/#comment-104074 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:17:54 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=42375#comment-104074 I know several all-Windows families that bought Apple’s Time Capsule to use as a home server/router. In North America at least, the price is competitive, and it’s easy to setup. And that’s what Microsoft is competing against on the low end, which is why Drive Extender was so important to Home Server, because it allowed them to compete on a slightly higher level.

However it seems that Microsoft is incapable of making good decisions. Wonder if I was right about when they’ll hit Chapter 11?

]]> By: twitter http://techrights.org/2010/11/25/whs-suppressed-or-marginalised/comment-page-1/#comment-104035 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:51:03 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=42375#comment-104035 LVM is great but it would not be so wonderful if it were automatic. I wonder if M$ can manage either in any of their software.

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