Comment Frightening... (Score 1) 172
What is frightening about the sports page redesign is that yahoo most likely will eventually carry that awful theme across all the yahoo sites.
Microsoft has
Microsoft didn't even start to make the yearly Top Ten list of patent recipients until 2007. And even then it usually placed around number 3 to number 5.
Rubbish.
Huge market share, huge profit margins, huge cash reserves
When you compare fundamentals, Apple's position is far more precarious than Microsoft's. Apple relies on its "cool" factor, and cool is almost always short-lived. Microsoft has never been cool, but they have more developers, more patents and more lobbyists than any other tech company on the planet. Write them off at your peril.
I like your rose-coloured glasses.....
Huge market share
Only in old markets. How's Microsoft's marketshare in the mobile segment?
huge profit margins
Only in old markets. How's the profit margin doing for Xbox?
huge cash reserves
Agreed, but no working strategy to turn that cash reserve into viable, growing new businesses.
Microsoft has never been cool,
At one time, they were. But they lost that attribute when the 1990's ended.
they have more developers
Yup, a lot of developers without a strategic direction, but with lots of internal fighting and back-stabbing.
more patents than any other tech company on the plane
Not correct.
more lobbyists than any other tech company on the planet
Now *there's* a feature of a tech company that I would be proud of... NOT. Microsoft needs the lobyists because has lost the ability to compete in the marketplace.
Write them off at your peril.
I did not write them off. I merely said the new CEO has a tough job.
Microsoft needs to get off the teat of the Windows cash cow and look towards the future.
Baloney, a sacrifice is volunary, and a bank robber certainly doesn't go in hoping to get shot. Snowden DID come forth volunarily,...
Both the robber and Snowden took risks, risks that have possibly severe consequences. Completely the same.
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Snowden ran away, and is now hiding in Russia. Like a coward.
he has sacrificed more
A bank robber who gets killed during the robbery sacrifices a lot, he lost his life and his future. Does that automatically make the bank robber a Patriot? Of course not.
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Marketeers like Acxiom and SurveySampling are probably lusting after the ability to link a MAC address to a social media account, or a person's demographics.
"Right on the heals of the Bill Gates BusinessWeek article discussing the importance of disease prevention and cure over technological deployment
I disagree with the premise of the summary.
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First of all, it was not a Bill Gates BusinessWeek article, it was an interview with Bill Gates in BusinessWeek.
Second, Bill Gates takes a swipe at technology deployment being done by a Microsoft competitor, without giving any substantiation of why technology deployment is bad.
The BusinessWeek interview of Bill Gates shows just how short-sighted and self-centered his "vision" really is. He is unable to comprehend the benefits of anything besides what he is doing.
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2) Gates is an individual, google is a corporation. Apples and oranges to compare the two.
Gates needs to look past his self-important blinders and see the whole picture.
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Gates needs to look past his self-important blinders.
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Maybe the discussion needs to be whether or not technology advancement needs to be slowed down in order for civilasation to keep up with the changes......
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When I buy an eBook, I do not own the book. In order to read the book, I have to hope that some DRM server somewhere will authorize the eBook reader to show me the book I want to read.
I have books on my book shelves that are over 50 years old, and I can still read them fine. Can the same be said about eBooks 50 years from now?
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
