I am not surprised who wrote this story at all. Kowenicki is Microsofts PR man? The slight increase is down to one thing Ballsup retiring, says much about the damage he has done to the company. They are being attacked from all angles. This man single handedly got the OS share for windows down from 95% to 20% (not desktop share before the fanboys complain, TOTAL OS share), laughed at the iphone as a non device, claimed Linux is a cancer which it now cant do anything against the openness of it. This man has thrown billions away in different markets (xbox, bing, windows phone) for very little gain. It is not surprising the investors in Microsoft wanted his head and are now making a line for Billy Boy Gates to leave the board too. The Office suite is being held up by a subscription model that they keep hiring the prices, they have alienated gamers, desktop users and programmers worldwide. All this article shows me is how their subscription model based on second rate software is on the verge of collapse. Would even a Microsoft fanboy have dreamt of Microsoft products being on other systems? The cellular division was, coveniently, hidden behind the trolling of patents with Android, their cellular makes nothing, zero. Their tablets are a flop, yes it is no wonder markets say sell and investors want heads
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"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.
""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""
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