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July 23, 2013
What went wrong at Microsoft: All the clues are in The Wire.
There was no room for a Stringer Bell–style dove to strike out and make a deal with an ambitious youngster like Marlo Stanfield (Google)or a wily long-standing rival like Proposition Joe (Apple) for a share of profits and a shot of innovation. (“It’s not even a thought, man,” Avon chided Stringer.) Why should they cut deals with the riff-raff? They had crushed Lotus, Novell, and Netscape. Office and Windows were stable, profitable behemoths. Sure, Linus Tovalds—aka Omar Little—was a perennial annoyance, robbing Microsoft of server profits by giving away Linux for free, but he didn’t threaten the main business. - Slate Magazine
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 23, 2013 9:30 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Once you use Linux you wont go near Windows again. And most Linux operating systems will dual boot either linux or windows in case you every want to remember how difficult it is to use windows.
Posted by: Potsie at July 23, 2013 10:21 AM
Now that Hackintosh has gotten relatively simple to install, wait till Apple decides to sell a PC compatible version of the Mac OS.
Posted by: Alan Kellogg at July 23, 2013 5:53 PM
I don't know if that would work Alan, they already have unix and linux operating systems available for free, Mac OS is a branch of unix os. Why would someone who wants an alternative to Windows buy something available for free? (besides stupidity)
There are Mac OS hacks available for PCs now.
Posted by: mark at July 23, 2013 6:07 PM
The operating system engineers were designing things that they would want, not what the user who knows half of nothing about computers wants?
As in "Please do not move things away from where they are or put other things in those places," like "I know it is a new model year, but the turn signal does not need to be in the trunk nor the brake pedal in the glove box, thank you very much."
Does anyone in computer software actually ask any consumer how much change they want for anything new? I note that American highway signs from year to year are remarkably the same - as an example.*
*The urge to go all 'Babe Ruth pointing at the bleachers' with a bat and some skulls is rather tempting.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at July 23, 2013 8:43 PM