RIM shipped 500k Playbooks, not sold

Google bought Android. They didn't write it themselves.

This is about using Intel as a fab producing Apple's A5 chips, not Apple switching to an Intel based chip

How do you know that ie9 doesn't handle this correctly?

In large datacenters, power and cooling costs have become a significant part of the TCO. For smaller server rooms x86 compatibility is probably more important.

CTO: it'll cost about $2000 per employee to retrain all our employees due to cost of trainers and time off for training. In addition, we nned to spend more money to convert our archived documents.
CEO: don't forget to include the cost in changing how we work with our suppliers and partners
GM: rofl, exec3 you stupid

You do realize that Paul Allen still owns a reported 138 million shares of MSFT?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_allen#Microsoft

The reality is that all software ships with bugs. Some known and some unknown. Typically it depends on how easy it is for the customer to find, what is the impact to the customer, cost to fix, and risk of regression. Given that software is typically patched after shipping, it means even more bugs get shipped rather than slipping the ship date.

Idiocracy

He should have been more careful with putting "Spying @ Microsoft" as his occupation on Facebook

This makes sense for home users, however, for enterprises, they like complete control over rollout of patches. The risk of a patch causing problems that impact the business could be very costly and is avoided at all times. IT Departments like to have the patch and test it internally to ensure there is no impact to the business before rolling it out. Also keep in mind that in many enterprises, the end user doesn't have admin access and can't apply the patch anyways.

You're looking at the wrong thing. If you compare AAPL and IBM, AAPL has much more growth in revenue and income. You need to compare forward looking PE for a fair comparison of whether the stock price is justified.

Online poker, for example, the casino makes money on every hand played. They don't care if the players win or lose, they just take out their "rake". Since this is guaranteed money, why would they cheat and risk losing their players?

This doesn't mean that employees of an online casino won't cheat. AbsolutePoker and UltimateBet both had occurrences of cheating and this was detected by players and "proven" through statistical analysis and hand analysis.

Assuming a similar number of people bought a new computer that came with Vista and it took 5 months to reach the same market share as Win7 in 3 weeks, I would say that a good portion of Win7 sales is on upgrades and not new computers.

The interesting part of this is that the CEO had EA purchase his old company for a high amount of $$$ and only two years later shut it down while he personally pocketed several million.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/96237-Analyst-Chews-Out-EA-CEO-Over-Pandemic-Closure