Microsoft’s Sacred Cash Cow

A fascinating article from Seattle Weekly about Microsoft’s lost focus and the threats it faces from Linux and Mac OSX. Not strictly blog related, but the role of Google in the challenge portfolio is of interest to all.
Seattle Weekly> Why are Microsoft products so endlessly frustrating to use? Even techno-geeks like me get annoyed by Windows. Iโ€™m tired of spending the first 10 minutes of my day rebooting just so I can get to work. Microsoft Outlook 2003, the latest version of the companyโ€™s e-mail and calendar software, hangs for me about once a day, requiring me to restart my PC. I also have a problem with Word 2003: Whenever I bullet a line of text, every line in the document gets a bullet. Asking Windows to shut down is more of a request than a commandโ€”it might, it might not. And recently, Internet Explorer stopped opening for me. read more>

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