Microsoft isn't going anywhere. Let's review which market segments they are involved in:
* Productivity Software (...)
* Workstating (sic) Operating System Software (...)
And without those two, MSFT is dead. On the other markets they are either way too small (database servers), or their operations are just burning money.
You know, there have been a few cases of trying to work with some Open Source software that I find the following bit of logic in there:
If (1){ do stuff } more stuff
I was confused when I first saw a
do { do stuff } while(false); more stuff
until if found out this was an obfuscated goto, because there where break; or continue; statements in the "loop".
Your ifs might be a workaround around compiler bugs (for example a compiler supporting variable scopes only in "real blocks" or something like that).
Sharepoint's a piece of garbage. Horribly implemented, poorly laid out, a pain in the ass to navigate, and slower than shit. You'd be better off with
So its not different from any other early implementation of Software that MS created a monopoly off (Windows, IE, Office).
Sun plans to cut as many as 6,000 jobs as the company tries to cope with plunging sales of server computers to financial firms, market-share losses to bigger competitors and a spiraling stock price.
... Sun is the third company in Santa Clara, at the heart of California's Silicon Valley, to cut jobs this week as technology companies cope with the worst sales slump since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000. Applied Materials Inc., the largest maker of chip-production machinery, announced plans to cut 1,800 jobs, and mobile-phone chip builder National Semiconductor Corp. said it will shed about 5 percent of the staff.
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
