Apr 28
Do what you do best…
Microsoft has a proven track record in building it’s Windows and Office software platforms and a proven track record in extracting all it can from a monopolised market.
Apr 08
Master of some trades, jack of none…
Running with what I’ve been saying for a while now, PC Pro has extrapolated Microsoft’s recent department-culling activity.
Microsoft started with Windows, and when it became cash rich threw money at many side projects, some of which worked (Office), some of which failed miserably (*cough* Vista *cough*) and some of which they were just too late with (MSN).
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Apr 02
History has a habit of repeating itself…
Thanks to Djeric
a In 2000 Microsoft released Windows ME. It was buggy, slow, prone to massive crashes and was lauded as hideous by everyone. It soon turned into a joke in the IT world and was replaced with Windows 2000 the next year, based Microsoft’s NT 5.0 architecture, which is still looked back on fondly as being as-close-to-right as Microsoft have ever got it.
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