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- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 10/05/2008, -35/+218What a load of crap.
- inactive, on 10/05/2008, -22/+160I love people who don't grasp history. Windows was so backwards compatible that it opened a multitude of security flaws. That more than anything caused the problems Microsoft was ridiculed for as far as the security of Windows and IE. Now, with Vista they have traded backwards compatibility for security, and yes it is more secure, and they are crucified for it. Steve Jobs regularly abandons his customer base when introducing a new operating system and no one sees it as being a big deal. The jump from OS 9 to OSX was huge, and almost every piece of software needed to be replaced on the new Apple systems. Sound familiar? The problem is that fan boys will bitch no matter what Microsoft does. OSX fell well before Vista in the Pwn2own challenge and yet people still take shots at Vista for security. I use Vista, XP Pro, and OSX on a regular basis, and they all do an adequate job. The secret is that Microsoft has two of the three most popular operating systems, and they will have for the foreseeable future. Businesses will eventually go to Vista because it is still a shorter and less expensive upgrade path than going to OSX, and Linux is still seen as a 'for geeks only' operating system.
- inactive, on 10/05/2008, -30/+134No, nada, never. Stupid article.
- glutamate, on 10/05/2008, -18/+110I got four words for you!
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DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS - Lousansano, on 10/05/2008, -5/+95I'm an apple fan but microsoft is not "fighting for survival" they safely have the lead
- NYConcepts, on 10/05/2008, -14/+100LOL. Is this article a joke?
- artfuldodga, on 10/05/2008, -31/+104I've said it before and I'll stay it again, ain't nothin wrong with Vista, it runs extremely well
- GoKings, on 10/05/2008, -7/+68Since when is owning like 90% of the computer industry fighting for your survival?
- pwnsey, on 10/05/2008, -14/+71Humiliated by Apple? Yeah...ok.
- spaceman84, on 10/05/2008, -6/+44I think Microsoft should start worrying when they stop making billions of dollars in profit each year.
By the same logic as in the article, Intel was "fighting for its very survival" back when AMD had a couple good years after they introduced the Athlon 64. Please. Microsoft and Intel have no true, equal competitors. They're not fighting for survival, they're fighting for the last few percent needed to have complete market dominance. - SuperIntendent, on 10/05/2008, -15/+49Vista runs better than XP on my computer, using less CPU, power, and video processing power.
IE is stupid, which is why I use FF.
Office 2008 runs perfectly on my computer.
For me, Vista>Xp - aftern9ne, on 10/05/2008, -10/+42"Microsoft is fighting for its very survival"
"$16billion Windows business"
What an idiot. - MMaster23, on 10/05/2008, -11/+38Wow .. that has got to be one of the worst articles written on the current and future state of Microsoft.
People should stop seeing Microsot as 1 company. I (and they themselves also) see them active as 4 different companies in 4 different markets with 4 very different approaches.
Desktop, Enterprise, Entertainment and Online
Desktop is doing just fine (unlike what people like to think, Vista is doing great)
Enterprise is doing fine and it slightly growing with products like Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V
Entertainment is growing like there is no tomorrow. Xbox is doing great and altough Zune could do better (like world-wide) it's still doing fine.
Online business however is weak. Windows Live is a good step however search and advertisement still isn't what it should be in order to compete with the bigger boys.
So Microsoft is doing just fine in 2 markets, growing in 1 and failing in 1.
To consider Microsoft as 1, is just plain stupid. That's like saying Microsoft does nothing but make Windows. - abbathdoom, on 10/05/2008, -5/+30One word: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- camilos007, on 10/05/2008, -8/+32"So has Microsoft lost it? A company with 93 per cent of the worldwide operating system market, rising revenues, a $60billion turnover and around $22.49billion in operating income "
I think they answered their own question. Can Microsoft improve? Yes. Has Microsoft lost it? Hardly. - tbredofsin, on 10/05/2008, -7/+30If this writer were honest, here is what the article would consist of in its entirety:
I love Apple and Microsoft sucks *****!
Unfortunately, he's yet another deceitful blowhard trying desperately to spin an op-ed into an actual news report. - nashrafeeg, on 10/05/2008, -3/+24if a company that made over 17 billion in profits last year alone and is organizing a 43 billion $ stock by back is fighting for survival i have lost all hope for my small start up that broke even for the first time last month.
this is nothing but sensationalist ***** - umbriago, on 10/05/2008, -5/+24Yeah, they're running a 30% profit margin this year. That's really fighting for your life.
- PabloIV, on 10/05/2008, -1/+17There is nothing humiliating about the Zune, I had one until my car flooded with it inside. I loved every second of being a Zune owner. I had 3 iPods before my Zune and not a single one of them compares.
Now that I'm out a music player I'm getting another Zune because it was a great product.
EDIT: I should have replied to rotozaza, my bad. - sonicEd, on 10/05/2008, -5/+21By the numbers, MS is the single most successful tech company. And they are growing at an impressive clip.
- trustyteen, on 10/05/2008, -2/+18i love how people bust on UAC but its in OSX as well....
- Shadoblak, on 10/05/2008, -15/+30Fire Steve Ballmer.
- xerexes1, on 10/05/2008, -22/+36Why do the above comments focus on inane catch-phrases and blind fanboyism? The article is an in-depth, 8 page analysis of missteps made by Microsoft, with suggestions on how to correct them. It is worth the time to read.
- psud0, on 10/05/2008, -6/+19"I love this company" - Steve Ballmer
- louiebaur, on 10/05/2008, -13/+26Agreed!
- limezor2, on 10/05/2008, -13/+26Apple fan? Its a ***** computer, not a sports team.
- Rustiga, on 10/05/2008, -6/+19Yeah I really can't believe this even got any diggs, are you people serious?
- inactive, on 10/05/2008, -0/+12I award you 1 internet for your well thought out post.
- IKORKYI, on 10/05/2008, -1/+12 "when introducing a new operating system."
- bjornski, on 10/05/2008, -5/+16Well, considering the choice someone makes on a computer can affect your life A ***** OF A LOT MORE than your favoritism in groups of grown men who wear tight pants and play with a ball, what's your issue?
Would the stick in your ass not have bothered you so much if he said "user" instead of "fan"?
Now go shut up and watch TV. There are a whole bunch of games being televised where you can get your fill of grown men playing with a ball and grappling each other before the group shower. - Wang, on 10/05/2008, -6/+17What a load of nonsense. Have you actually looked at Microsoft's annual profit? Increasing....and HUGE...
- MasterGrief, on 10/05/2008, -1/+12Can't do it--sensationalist title warrants a bury all its own.
- 2of8, on 10/05/2008, -2/+12Horny handed? What?
- Kamujin, on 10/05/2008, -1/+11"Has Microsoft lost it?
Rejected by Yahoo!, outgunned by Google and humiliated by Apple, Microsoft is fighting for its very survival"
I don't read articles by people who resort to these kinds of inflammatory headlines.
What I do know is that know is that 90% market share is a pretty damned good indication that Microsoft is not in fact "fighting for its survival".
Honestly, I wouldn't mind if they were. I'd rather see us move to a standardized OS. That don't change the facts.
Think of it this way. Everything imaginable has gone Apple's way these last 3-4 years and the BEST they have to show for it is 8% market share? Are you kidding me? Its more true to say "Apple can't get laid in a whorehouse with a fist full of 20's." then it is to suggest Microsoft is fighting for its survival. - ZeeZee2k, on 10/05/2008, -2/+11If Microsoft is fighting for its survival, then everyone else is already dead.
- jrbrewin, on 10/05/2008, -3/+12@cuecat - "Vista is retarded, I don't care what anyone says"
@ superintendant - "Vista runs better than XP on my computer"
vista also runs better and is more stable on my 2-3 year old macbook pro than osx 10.5 is.. and that's WITH apple's ***** windows drivers.
@ AppleMacStud - "Stop lying. Vista has already been proven many times over to be slower than XP. "
The clue really should be in your name, although "apple mac" and "stud" are the dictionary definition of an oxymoron.
back on topic, go and read something recent.. many independant respetible tech sites have re-visted vista performance since sp1, and tested it on the same hardware as an XP install and it is no slower, and in some instances faster. little tip, it always helps to know what you're talking about before commenting. I mean, it's not like osx 10.0 was anything to write home about, is it? you remember the performance and and stability issues there. At least apple had the decency one time to give you the point release for 10.1 for free because the original release was such a pile of *****. - ahpro, on 10/05/2008, -7/+15they have over 10X as much of the market as apple. They're not fighting for their very survival.
- ryanthemadone, on 10/05/2008, -2/+10Did you not read the article? It was a well balanced analysis of the state of each of Microsoft's businesses save their research labs. The article isn't saying Microsoft has lost it... In fact the article puts forward the point that Microsoft are ideally placed to take advantage of the present market.
- mlwarrior, on 10/05/2008, -2/+10Seriously, I laughed when they stated that Open Office was a competitor for Microsoft office. That's something you say when you don't have a clue.
- timusca, on 10/05/2008, -1/+9Actually, it was only one word repeated 15 times. (you thought you'd get me by saying 16, but it was only REPEATED 15 times... I know you were thinking it)
- sirbeta, on 10/05/2008, -7/+15I have to agree with this. A while back I switched from XP to Vista and I haven't looked back. I haven't noticed slowdowns or crashes or the general grime apparently everyone seems to face on a daily basis. With SP1, some of the silly transfer and network related problems disappeared. My computer specs definitely aren't great, it's all tech from a few years ago. Most Vista bashing is FUD based on its launch when truly, yes, it was pretty bad. Of course I find it hard to blame Microsoft for vendors not releasing anywhere near decent drivers for the new operating system. (I'm looking at you Creative)
- tnoy, on 10/05/2008, -0/+8So, according to the various journalists. Apple is "dominating" with less than 10% of the global market share, and Microsoft is "struggling to survive" when they drop into the lower 90s in market share.
- diggPPT, on 10/05/2008, -2/+9...and remixed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE - inactive, on 10/05/2008, -3/+10GIVE IT UP FOR ME!!!!!!! WOAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS COMPANY!!!! YEAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- nashrafeeg, on 10/05/2008, -0/+7a operating system that does not take advantage of the ***** loads of memory and and idle processor cycle is not a good thing. when would the people realize it is not how little memory the operating system uses but its how it manages it
- namelessNN, on 10/05/2008, -4/+10it will never cease to amaze me how ignorant apple fanboys can be.
the only response for thinking microsoft is in trouble is this:
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stupid people are so entertaining. - Stroggoth, on 10/05/2008, -1/+7No, just listen to the educated customers, not the ones who believe that Vista is horrible garbage, because it isn't.
- Dujenwook, on 10/05/2008, -6/+12I didn't even read the article but just the notion that Microsoft is "fighting for its survival" is totally retarded. They are so embedded into life as we know it that I'd be willing to bet that Microsoft as a corporation will outlive anyone living today. Microsoft is one of those companies that is so big that it has a direct influence on the government and vice-versa. The only conceivable way Microsoft would go under would be if America as a whole tanks and even in that event I could see Microsoft persisting.
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