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Re: [News] Mark Shuttleworth Excited About Vista7 Because It Ruins Microsoft

After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Monday 06 April 2009 17:21 : \____
>
>>> Executive summary:
>>>
>>> 1. Implement better leadership
>> 
>> Microsoft will fight every option except 1 with tooth and nail.
>
> Obligations to investors have a span of /quarters/, not years or a decade.
> Therefore, due to prescribed business goals, Microsoft will probably end up
> like another company with a "Micro" in its name. But will Microsoft find a
> suitor for $7.5bn? How about Google (GOOG)? Naaa.. they already have GNU/Linux
> and it's better than Windows. Google Apps too are better than Microsoft's
> Web-based offerings.

Should it come to pass that Microsoft ever enter such dire straits ("Even
Jesus gets 'Industrial Disease'!), I imagine there are some large Microsoft
customers who would kvell at being handed Microsoft's "family jewels" to
manage for themselves.  Think of all the bugs they could fix!

-- 
There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
		-- Wm. Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

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