twilightmoon

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   by twilightmoon 17y ago

   MS deal with Intuit did not "fall through" they tricked intuit into thinking there was a deal, got their internal lines of code then booted them out the door like a 2 dollar hooker, and wrote MS Money with the code. This was standard operat
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   by twilightmoon 17y ago

   The magnitude of the $1000+ PC market in terms of # of widgets sold, or in terms of revenue? In case you were not aware, Apple's market cap is higher than Dell and HP combined who together sell over 50% of the domestic units in the US, whic
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   by twilightmoon 17y ago

   Perhaps you have your own theory to explain this shift? Instead of sniping at Gruber, for trying to explain a very real shift in the market, if there's a better explanation, then link to it or share it.
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   by twilightmoon 17y ago

   On point 1, are you arguing Microsoft should say that Win 7 is superior to Mac OS X, or to previous versions of Windows? The first argument would be terribly hard for them to win, but the second they might be able to credibly argue. I don't
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   by twilightmoon 17y ago

   I think a better comment would have been: One market Microsoft is weak and being forced out (phones), another is very low margin, and dragging down Microsoft's overall revenue and profits (netbooks).