Besides how to create monopolies and not pay a real price for it? They were really good at the whole "embrace, extend, extinguish" thing when they needed to, and they got away with it. Impressively so. But now that they've lost that tool, they seem to spend most their time shitting in their own nest. High quality shit, but shit nonetheless.

Its kind of good sport to watch them shoot themselves in the foot over and over again. One of the wonders of the known universe is they still manage to turn a profit. Its a strange world sometimes.

Its an NSA requirement.

Good to see MS is supporting RSS now.

You have to consider the source here too ... its Microsoft. It was "sponsored" research, which translates to "rigged" test with rigged results. So it is indeed done for marketing purposes, or why else do it. Probably a simple web page with little css or js. You can't take anything they say at face value.

The MS business model is to a) buy / copy someone else's business plan / idea b) provide just enough quality and value to get a big audience and c) start taking where you really don't want to go but now they've set the hook and you are in their playground d) start fucking you and hope you like it enough to come back for more.

True, just 'bing' it!

That's only half true.

Its finally catching up with them now. They got away with it because they were pretty much the only viable game in town. They fucked up the tablet market, and their phone market, and people have real choices in those areas. But people think of MS as the crap company that pushes crap. And who wants a phone or a tablet from a company that is a known, certified crap dealer. Its quite fun to watch all this though, I gotta say.

IF? The problem is there are multiple IT related industries being "supported" by the fuxor syndrome, that is known as "windows". But its accepted, and has become expected. Yea, its very hard to sell "free", but not so hard to sell a guarantee or whathaveyou. The "free" thing does not really have a salesman or account rep.

Uh, Android, Apple, or anything with a web browser. SaaS, Cloud, etc. Not to say that works for every use case, but every use case used to be a windows pc. Plenty of work environments are using tablets (ipads) now as either replacements for pc's or supplements to them, making the pc less important. And the whole point of the article is that the demotion of the ms based pc is a pretty significant trend. Does MS go away completely? Of course not. Are they earning significant less than they would have if things were going their way? Surely. Are they the dominant player across the board that they once were?

You must be the target audience then. The rest of the planet, or most of us anyway, are not.

Don't say that too loudly. A certain degree of illusion is necessary to maintain order.

Yea, but I only do bugs once a month. On Tuesdays. I can't be bothered before then. Your problems may seem big, but I choose to do things my way, at my pace. Besides my inaction helps support a large secondary market for security appliances, IT support personnel and the like. We jeopardize an entire sector of the economy by undermining these people.

Huh?