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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: cahult on 9 March 2002, 03:28

Title: What Mr. Cringely has to say about the ongoing lawsuit
Post by: cahult on 9 March 2002, 03:28

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020307.html (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020307.html)

Nice, eh?

Title: What Mr. Cringely has to say about the ongoing lawsuit
Post by: Bateluer on 9 March 2002, 04:53

Hey! We watched several videos narrated by Bob Cringley in my A+ and Network Infrastructure classes, he does a pretty good job narrating.

Title: What Mr. Cringely has to say about the ongoing lawsuit
Post by: Bateluer on 9 March 2002, 04:56

On the article, I think removing Bill from MS is a good idea, but I do not want the US Government to buy all his MS stock. That would give the US Government dominion over MS, which would be very bad. Whenever they stick their figures in business, they fuck it up.

Bill Gates, an investor? With 50 billion dollars? That could REALLY stimulate any economonic venture.

Title: What Mr. Cringely has to say about the ongoing lawsuit
Post by: dbl221 on 9 March 2002, 05:55

No NO....we want Bill to stay at the helm of M$ so he can finnish drinving it into the ground and pissing off even more customers.  :cool:

Title: What Mr. Cringely has to say about the ongoing lawsuit
Post by: creedon on 9 March 2002, 07:11

I LIKE this Cringely guy- he seems to have his shit together.

Title: What Mr. Cringely has to say about the ongoing lawsuit
Post by: Calum on 11 March 2002, 14:27

he seems astute compared to many other commentators.

Title: What Mr. Cringely has to say about the ongoing lawsuit
Post by: MxCl on 13 March 2002, 16:18

I fear this greatly, MS has a lot of money, and their methods of business have always seemed extremely succesful even if often immoral. I would hate for them to expand into all these key technology areas and forge monopolies.

Will the public accept this? The mass market already expects a great deal from mobile phones, video-consoles etc. and won't accept shoddy merchandise. But they might, they do it already with MS software because MS software looks pretty and has one or two very gimicky but neat features that people like.

I don't want one company to have that much power, what would they do with it?

Finally, ousting Gates? Not likely to happen is it? It would probably work though, just as that guy said.