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| roy_ | I also had many misunderstanding with this "feature" until I disabled it completely. | Aug 23 17:44 |
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| roy_ | > People have a decade and a half of whitewashing, reputation | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > management, marketeering, astroturfing and spin to forget how reviled | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > Bill Gates and M$ were by the end of the 1990's. Everyone saw the | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > writing on the wall for M$. It was having its lunch eaten by Linux in | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > the server market, it was facing breakup in the US courts, and it | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > posted an $18 billion loss. IMHO Gates stepped down to let Ballmer | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > ride it into the ground, preferably protracting the ride as long as | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > possible. M$ failure to go under can in part be attributed cult-like | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > devotion and corruption around the world. However, looking back | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > through several of the news leaks, it is also clear that the ability | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > to sell back doors to governments and other interests has probably | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > been as big or greater savior. | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > M$ has, again, run a loss. Ballmer's restructuring is probably one | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > way of hiding what is losing money and, maybe, how much market the two | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | > cash cows (OEM/Windows and file format/Office) have lost just now. | Aug 23 17:44 |
| roy_ | Has Microsoft just reported yet another quarterly loss? I thought that was a while back, before even the Surface fiasco... | Aug 23 17:44 |
| *roy_ is now known as schestowitz | Aug 23 17:51 | |
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