I don’t often read the Huffington Post, so I missed this when it was posted. After reading it, well, Jonathan Rettinger doesn’t understand Microsoft, and he doesn’t understand business.
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For years I’ve been warning everyone that Microsoft as a corporation is in deep trouble. Now Microsoft’s share of the new device market is down to 19%…
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Kleopatra and I have been laughing ourselves silly. Everybody got the Apple announcements from Tuesday September 10, 2013 wrong.
Not just wrong, DEAD WRONG.
A couple of days ago I wrote about Ballmer’s impending retirement. One of the points I made is that Ballmer appears of have made the choice, that he isn’t being pushed out. A lot of writers have effectively written Ballmer off as a spent force at Microsoft.
Then Microsoft buys Nokia’s handset division…
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Steve Ballmer has announced his retirement. I’ve held back on commenting, so that all the usual suspects could make fools of themselves first…
Steven J. Vaughan Nichols (SJVN) has debunked the Office for Linux rumor. He is one of the better reporters covering Linux, with a solid technical background that most just don’t have. What he doesn’t have is an understanding of the numbers, and I think he’s missing a couple of salient points.
There’s a rumor that Microsoft is going to introduce a version of Office for Linux. Let’s run an analysis on the idea.
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How can I say that Microsoft Corp., one of the most profitable companies ever to exist is going to go bankrupt, and actually mean it?
Because I’ve done a lot of work studying the company, and understand some things about it, its markets, and its customers, that aren’t common knowledge. It is an exceptionally complex issue that I’ve never explained fully before, to anyone. In this series of posts I’m going to break down my reasoning step by step, explaining how I found the data I’m using, where I’m guessing, and most importantly why I think the way I do.
This is the second part of the the series, I hope you enjoy reading it.
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How can I say that Microsoft Corp., one of the most profitable companies ever to exist is going to go bankrupt, and actually mean it?
Because I’ve done a lot of work studying the company, and understand some things about it, its markets, and its customers, that aren’t common knowledge. It is an exceptionally complex issue that I’ve never explained fully before, to anyone. In this series of posts I’m going to break down my reasoning step by step, explaining how I found the data I’m using, where I’m guessing, and most importantly why I think the way I do.
Are you ready for a wild ride? I’m going to feed this to you in 1000 word segments every day, until I’m finished.
Continue reading “Microsoft Death Watch – Winter 2013 Report Part 01”
Steve Sinofsky is out. There’s going to be a ton of analysis about what this means, but you can ignore it all, because it means NOTHING.
Through the Looking Glass 
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