"Robert Heller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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At Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:26:44 -0500 Rjack <[email protected]> wrote:
Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:56:25 -0500 "amicus_curious" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> Microsoft is already hurting and is probably facing long term problems
> (with or without the JOD or FTC enforcement).
The World is littered with pundits and experts (especially free
software advocates) who have predicted Microsoft's demise for the
last fifteen years. This year 2009 and Microsoft still has 90%
market share of operating systems.
Microsoft recently announced that it is laying off people... I take
that as a concreet sign that 'Microsoft is already hurting'. Probably
not a *serious* hurt though (except for the 5,000 or so soon-to-be
jobless Microsoft employees).
Don't look now, but a lot of other companies are laying off people, too.
Can you attribute that to the triumph of Linux in the market? The economy
is bad because people have a loss of confidence in the future brought about
by years of fear of imminent strife and wasteful government practices in
terms of using a lot of money to destroy things and rebuild them elsewhere
rather than focusing on the US home needs. Obama will, I hope, reverse
that.
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