According to the Register in summary,
you can't ignore Windows in the data center
Nor could you ignore a black adder but it's not what you expect to find there. Sheesh. How low can the Register go?
As for Cisco, it's a good thing they have piles of cash - business with M$ usually requires a lot of it and M$ is unusually hungry these days.
Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt expects PC unit sales to fall by 11 percent for calendar year 2009, down from his previous outlook of a 2 percent decline.
... PC sales dropped by 4 percent in 2001, ... this downturn will be worse ...
Holt sees netbooks comprising 13 percent of total PC units this year and 18 percent next year. Since many netbooks don't bundle Microsoft's Windows operating system, the analyst sees the average selling price of Windows through manufacturers falling by 15 percent to $56. Holt sees netbooks comprising 13 percent of total PC units this year and 18 percent next year. Since many netbooks don't bundle Microsoft's Windows operating system, the analyst sees the average selling price of Windows through manufacturers falling by 15 percent to $56. However, the Windows 7 release, expected by the December quarter, should stabilize 2010 prices as companies upgrade.
Holt is an optimist. Others, including Intel's CEO, have low expectations for Windows 7 and other current plans. All the bad news, Vista and Vista renamed are consistently panned, their entertainment hardware is lackluster at best, web users defect, and their business model is more recession sensitive than expected, paints a worse picture of M$ than ever."
3) This "bridge" is not on private property. It's on public property.
I like being called "twitter" by you idiots. It's almost as dumb as your asserting that building public roads and bridges on M$'s private property is something done for the public good. Most private landowners have to pay someone to improve their land with roads and bridges. Having them owned by the public is even better than having the public build them, if you are into that kind of corruption, because it means the public will continue to pay to maintain them. You M$ defenders like to play the public ownership up as some kind of justification for yet more public money being spent for M$'s benefit.
You M$ defenders really have no shame do you? We're talking about business friendly Bloomberg here. Even a M$ contractor is quoted saying there are better uses for public money. Yet all you tools are here pretending some great public good is being done. Sheesh. Here's something better and cheaper: Get M$'s network and OS up to spec so that people don't have to waste time commuting every day. Good luck doing that without bringing more free software onto your campus. Ha!
As someone who once worked at MS (and now at a Linux company, so sad that I feel I need to qualify that)
You should qualify that further. Some people consider Novell a "Linux company" but it's poison.
The city of Redmond is 47,000 people. There are 40,000 employees of Microsoft in Redmond every day.
Most people would consider a company that works hard to avoid local taxes to be a significant burden instead of the economic contributor people expect. Why is it that more M$ employees don't live in Redmond? Why is it that the 40,000 people of Redmond should shoulder the cost of a bridge on private property? Why should Federal funds be used for such a project? [Hint: they avoid Federal and International taxes with their Irish shell company.]
Microsoft's share of Internet searches in the U.S. fell to a 12-month low according to Comscore's report of Internet search queries for February.
... with 8.2 percent of all U.S. search queries in February, down slightly from January share of 8.5
Hotmail's decline is not much of a surprise, given copious competition, interface, censorship and spam problems. The bottom line is that other companies do these things better."
We are not a clone.
