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> "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." It is far too early to say with certainty that Microsoft's ship has sailed. IBM turned thems
by rednukleus 14y ago
> "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
It is far too early to say with certainty that Microsoft's ship has sailed. IBM turned themselves around. Apple turned themselves around. Microsoft is still in a far, far better position than either of those companies were at one point.
EDIT: Parent edited their comment to tone it down. Leaving my comment as it is.
- meaty 14y agoI'd argue they are in a far better position than Google, Facebook and Apple regarding privacy and honesty (shokcing thought that). I think this will be the next battleground so they may have a chance of winning.
- mikelat 14y agoWhy? Skype in china? Xbox live ads? Scroogled (and other anti-google campaigns)? WGA? They've done plenty of questionable things which are shady and violate privacy.
- meaty 14y agoAll the other guys are doing it worse - that's the thing. I'm not saying they are suddenly perfect, but they are less worse than the others.
- mikelat 14y agoThe worst I can think of is facebooks changing of their TOS, and the companies are "scary" with the kind of data they're potentially compiling but they haven't actually done anything yet (and switching to microsoft products would simply make them the scary company). Some things that apple does like patent abuse is something that Microsoft has done as well, so its difficult to single out apple for something like that. Or facebook's lock in is similar to the Windows API lock in. You want to give me examples of things that make all 3 of those companies worse than microsoft?