What Microsoft Groks Not
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| But what you seem not to understand, Bill, is that opening up helps *you*
| make Windows better, which is hardly "irrelevant for what people want."
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-microsoft-groks-not.html
This good new post makes an excellent rebuttal:
Free Open Source Sorftware - Why should I support it?
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| Conclusion: Don’t be afraid of FOSS! It definitely will not stop innovation,
| but induce it, it will not cost you more money (it actually will safe money)
| and the source code will outlive the companies’ lifetime, which means you
| will be able to access documents even in 25 years. Did you ever try to open a
| document with Office 2008, you made in Microsoft Office in the year 2000? You
| can not. You need to convert it first with an external program. What if
| Microsoft stops existing? Who guarantees you to be able to open your
| documents in 10 years? No one has the source code…..
|
| Bet safe, Bet Open Source.
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http://mckooiker.byethost5.com/blog/?p=102
Microsoft lives in the past. That's where it's likely to stay.
Recent:
Microsoft's Last Big Beat: Internet Domination or Death
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| What can $44.6B USD mean? Well, for Microsoft (MSFT) it may mean the cost of
| survival.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/63876-microsoft-s-last-big-beat-internet-domination-or-death?source=yahoo
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
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| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
Microsoft's DreamSpark – What a Giveaway
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| The rest of the $44.6bn (£22.3bn) deal would be financed with an undisclosed
| amount of credit.
|
| What that means is that it must squeeze as much money as it can from its
| operations to fund that debt and still pay dividends to shareholders, who
| will be looking for some payback from the Yahoo takeover. Giving away
| software is the last thing it would want to do in these circumstances, and
| the DreamSpark announcement shows just how worried it is about the future.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveaway
Related:
Will Microsoft Survive the Next 10 Years?
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| I am not really an expert in this but when I read all the negative
| headlines and articles I ask myself if Microsoft really will survive
| the next 10 years.
|
| [...]
|
| I am pretty sure that the Open Source Community, the new Ubuntu,
| Google and of course Apple are those companies that are ready for
| our century and they will get more and more people that know what
| they really want.
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http://websquirrel.blogspot.com/2007/03/will-microsoft-survive-next-10-years.html
P. Graham: Microsoft is Dead
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| A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking
| to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo.
| I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of
| Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media
| company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face
| and realized he didn't understand. It was as if I'd told him how much
| girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 80s. Barry who?
|
| Microsoft? He didn't say anything, but I could tell he didn't quite
| believe anyone would be frightened of them.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
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