Microsoft's impending doom and how Apple & Microsoft differ on achieving
success
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| Nevermind the inanities (Overpriced? No. Underpowered? Hmm - how so?),
| these quotes illustrate how Microsoft goes about competing, or rather,
| how Microsoft/Ballmer thinks firms should compete with them: not at
| all. According to Microsoft, the only way for Microsoft to win is
| if competition loses, or better yet, dies. This is the underlying
| philosophy. And this isn't something new or restricted to Ballmer. This
| sense of anger and violence has been embedded in the organizational
| culture. Microsoft's death-star treatment of Netscape, Corel,
| Borland, Lotus, Netscape, AOL, IBM, and numerous others are
| well-chronicled.
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http://innerdaemon.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/apple-microsoft-differ-on-how-to-achieve-success/
Novell is in the queue.
Related:
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| From: bradsi Fri Oct 18 14:24:00 1991
| To: dawntr; jonl; makemap; mikemur; philipg; vijayc
| Cc: garygi; hankv; lewisl; peteh
| Subject: Re: Excel brainstorm group
| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 91 14:20:38 PDT
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| I'd be glad to help tilt lotus into into the death spiral. I could do it
| friday afternoon but not saturday. I could do it pretty much any time
| the followung week.
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/010807/PLEX_1031.pdf
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