____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Thursday 22 January 2009 23:56 : \____
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> <Quote>
> Overlooked in the Microsoft announcement about its layoffs of 5,000
> people over the next 18 months is this startling revelation: The
> company's revenue decline is due, in large part, to the growth in the
> sales of netbooks...
>
> While overall growth was 2%, Microsoft took a big hit with its client
> software, and a big reason for that was netbooks. [Microsoft
> admits...]
>
> That's an astonishing admission. It means that people are forgoing
> higher-priced laptops, and instead buying netbooks --- and many of
> those netbooks are powered by Linux. So Microsoft loses out not only
> on sales of Windows, but also sales of Microsoft Office as well.
> Estimates are that 30% of all netbooks ship with Linux.
>
> This is all the more reason why Microsoft needs to ship Windows 7
> quickly, and will most certainly do it before the announced 2010 ship
> date. Windows 7 has been designed to work with netbooks, and Microsoft
> hopes it will be a Linux-killer.
>
> [Prillo thinks 7 will help defeat Linux.]
> </Quote>
>
>
http://blogs.computerworld.com/microsoft_layoffs_netbooks_sales_are_killing_us
s/Prillo thinks/Pirillo hopes/
He's a Microsoft MVP. Without Microsoft, he'll be unemployed and lonely.
Microsoft has no new projects to facilitate a turnaround. Its latest products
that are few (Surface, Zune, Vista) are a /total/ disaster.
So tell me, those people whom Microsoft sacked just now... do they receive a
complimentary Surface to take home? I mean, they sit there in the warehouse
and nobody touches them anyway.
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