On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:27:39 -0500, Charlie Tame <charlie@tames.net>
wrote:

>Microsoft does need to recognize that Linux IS getting much more user
>friendly, and is therefore a viable alternative for many of these older
>machines that MS and the OEMs want us to replace with Vista machines.
>They will not all get thrown away, and many that get "Salvaged" won't
>have the OEM XP disks with them so when the OS breaks, there's a
>perfectly usable free option. In some ways having the Vista specs too
>high to run on them may be a bad thing for MS.

What I don't get is why Microsoft seems so dead set on killing off XP.
There's nothing wrong from a business standpoint of offering both...
as a choice. People that just got to have the "latest and greatest"
could go with Vista then buy some expensive hardware it needs to go
with it, others wanting a new machine, but a basic no frills model
could opt for XP. Sounds like a win, win to me.

From where I sit one of the biggest problems Microsoft faces is
Ballmer. He's not that well liked on the street (Wall street), he's
lost tons of respect from institutional investors for screwing up the
Yahoo deal and most smaller investors think he's a Bozo, and who can
blame them?

When you own stock in a Fortune 500 company and the CEO dances around
on stage like he's having a bad LSD trip, why would you trust him to
lead the company in the right direction? The guy doesn't even know how
to close a deal for a much smaller company (Yahoo) which by now, if
Microsoft really thinks they need it for the future could have started
a hostile takeover bid and be well on the way to closing the deal. But
no, instead Microsoft's stock continues to slowly slide South.

If Microsoft wants to get some respect back, get rid of the Ballmer
clown.