JUST a quick look at the latest blunders:

Windows 7 XP Mode..at a price?

I believe that the XP mode for Windows 7 says alot. I think it says that despite what we have read by certain MS faithful posters, Vista was not the sucess of globally championed product in either Enterprise or the home. I believe that it shows users are still dedicated to the XP platform, else if Vista was so great and popular there would be no need for an XP mode at all.

Appeal seeks to save Vista case

Trying to revive a case that has given Microsoft chronic headaches, lawyers for PC buyers are asking an appeals court to review a federal judge's rejection of class-action status in their long-running lawsuit over Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" program.

Their petition, filed late last week in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, disputes U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman's recent ruling denying class-action status in the case. The decision meant the case could proceed to trial just on the claims of the six named plaintiffs. In seeking to make the case a class action again, the appeal aims to open it back up to thousands of people.

Microsoft Bob Rides Again

Some people actually refused to upgrade to Office 2007. They'll be even more turned off by Office 14, the next iteration of the Suite. And Windows 7's new UI? Forget it!

And according to this:

...The Guardian has dropped MS Office Mac and gone OpenOffice. That's 1,000+ corporate seats right there.

Microsoft's latest results (profit down 32% [1, 2]) are simply a reflection of its performance. It has only itself to blame, but competition from GNU/Linux and Free software helped not at all. ⬆