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Title: Microsoft on the verge of imploding? Apple monopoly incoming?!
Post by: The Fake Shemp on June 01, 2010, 12:13:15 PM
What Will It Take to Save Microsoft? (http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2010/05/28/what-will-it-take-to-save-microsoft.aspx)

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I could go on, but you get the drift. Just about every big project at Microsoft has failed for a very long time. The company's share price has stagnated through the decade, and the world is turning away from the traditional computers that Redmond loves, instead relying more on mobile gadgets, where Microsoft is losing badly. Ballmer is good with numbers and is a Harvard-educated businessman, but have you ever seen him make a correct call on technology trends?

Microsoft. :'(
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Post by: Don Flamenco on June 01, 2010, 12:13:58 PM
MS going third party.  Blinx Triology for PS4 launch confirmed!
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 01, 2010, 12:15:39 PM
Nintendo buys Microsoft confirmed
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Post by: Himu on June 01, 2010, 12:23:53 PM
I think it's a bit sensational, though. 360 has helped lead the way of the defeat of Sony as the lead console maker, Zune players...while not being nearly as popular as Ipod are probably the best mp3 players out there right now, XP was a great success and continues to be and 7 is probably better than XP.
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Post by: MCD on June 01, 2010, 12:25:43 PM
fud.
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Post by: WrikaWrek on June 01, 2010, 12:27:50 PM
Just needs a new CEO.

Microsoft's problems are the ones i complain about, but they won't kill MS at all.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 01, 2010, 12:28:08 PM
They still own the desktop computer market, and it's not like the relevance of them will disappear anytime soon. Seems like they have time to get their other shit together
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Post by: The Fake Shemp on June 01, 2010, 12:31:13 PM
Or do they? Everyone is jumping ship! Someone call Prole, and tell him to get his resume ready!
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Post by: BlueTsunami on June 01, 2010, 12:42:33 PM
Drinky is gonna' be forced to program touch based hentai games for iPad 2.0 :'(
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 01, 2010, 12:47:42 PM
courier :(

(http://www.blogcdn.com/chinese.engadget.com/media/2006/09/jallardinterview.jpg)

 :american
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Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on June 01, 2010, 12:53:23 PM
Finally, god gives the deserving their deserving.

RIP Microsoft, you always were terrible and tried to use money to kill all your competitors, even though they ended up owning you with true, quality products.
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Post by: ManaByte on June 01, 2010, 12:56:43 PM
Finally, god gives the deserving their deserving.

RIP Microsoft, you always were terrible and tried to use money to kill all your competitors, even though they ended up owning you with true, quality products.

MS owns part of Apple. But you're too dirt stupid to know that you fucking piece of horse shit.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 01, 2010, 12:58:22 PM
man, he gets you every single time
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Post by: BlueTsunami on June 01, 2010, 12:58:26 PM
:lol
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on June 01, 2010, 12:59:04 PM
hatred based on company affiliation, I love it
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Post by: Beezy on June 01, 2010, 01:07:16 PM
manabyte :lol
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Post by: Barry Egan on June 01, 2010, 01:15:26 PM
god gives the deserving their deserving.

???????????????
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Post by: The Fake Shemp on June 01, 2010, 01:17:54 PM
That is some amazing writing right there.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 01, 2010, 01:19:21 PM
it's like someone hit him in the temple with a hammer and then sat him down in front of the computer
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Post by: Don Flamenco on June 01, 2010, 01:24:00 PM
Score a big one for Ninty!  I knew Reggie could do it.  He's about kicking ass and making games! *hugs Nintendo DS and Wii* :mario  
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Post by: ManaByte on June 01, 2010, 01:24:19 PM
(http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/215178115_ExTPi-L-2.jpg)
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 01, 2010, 01:27:25 PM
oh shit! :o

i'mma sell my shares, it's all over :'(

spoiler (click to show/hide)
:bow :hump cupertino :hump :bow2
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Post by: border on June 01, 2010, 01:34:47 PM
MS owns part of Apple. But you're too dirt stupid to know that you fucking piece of horse shit.

Microsoft sold most of their interest in Apple nearly 7 years ago.  They don't "own" any significant part of Apple.
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Post by: Raban on June 01, 2010, 01:35:39 PM
Finally, god gives the deserving their deserving.

RIP Microsoft, you always were terrible and tried to use money to kill all your competitors, even though they ended up owning you with true, quality products.

MS owns part of Apple. But you're too dirt stupid to know that you fucking piece of horse shit.

:rofl

Oh man, I actually laughed irl.

EDIT: Oh I forgot to mention this is probably fud, but if MS fails I don't really care. Now that Steam supports Mac, that about does 'er for MS and me anyways.
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Post by: BlueTsunami on June 01, 2010, 01:38:24 PM
Whats with the Apple propaganda recently? First the dude from Chrono Trigger and now this? Then I find out Epoch was called Silybird in Japan :'(
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Post by: Barry Egan on June 01, 2010, 01:43:38 PM
Whats with the Apple propaganda recently? First the dude from Chrono Trigger and now this? Then I find out Epoch was called Silybird in Japan :'(

eh?
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Post by: The Fake Shemp on June 01, 2010, 01:50:39 PM
I like that Methodis went the extra crazy step and anthropomorphized Microsoft.  I can see him writing angry letters addressed to "Mr. Microsoft" next.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/15cehp3.jpg)
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 01, 2010, 01:53:30 PM
 :lol
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Post by: Barry Egan on June 01, 2010, 01:56:25 PM
bahahahahahahaha
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Post by: huckleberry on June 01, 2010, 02:02:45 PM
I like that Methodis went the extra crazy step and anthropomorphized Microsoft.  I can see him writing angry letters addressed to "Mr. Microsoft" next.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/15cehp3.jpg)

 :rofl

omg at the avatar stamp on the bottom right   :lol
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Post by: Robo on June 01, 2010, 02:04:55 PM
:bow  perfect
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 01, 2010, 02:08:37 PM
 :lol :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Microsoft on the verge of imploding? Apple monopoly incoming?!
Post by: BlueTsunami on June 01, 2010, 02:31:21 PM
Whats with the Apple propaganda recently? First the dude from Chrono Trigger and now this? Then I find out Epoch was called Silybird in Japan :'(

eh?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=396885
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Post by: Saint Cornelius on June 01, 2010, 03:38:20 PM
Oh, good! Now that Willco thinks they're going to fail, I should invest in them!

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Post by: Himu on June 01, 2010, 03:45:43 PM
:rofl
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Post by: OptimoPeach on June 01, 2010, 03:54:03 PM
Was Windows 7 not a success sales wise? Honest question. I'm far too self-centered to pay attention to the world of commerce
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 01, 2010, 03:57:59 PM
it was a major success, and the majority of microsoft's profits do not come from the user market, but i shan't piss on a good troll article!
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Post by: BlueTsunami on June 01, 2010, 04:04:32 PM
I can see it now, each employee iPad requisition form comes with a check box for multi-tasking that entitles you to a secondary iPad :smug
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Post by: brob on June 01, 2010, 04:04:59 PM
throw out you ctrl keys!


:bow command :bow2
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 01, 2010, 04:06:28 PM
:bow cupertino future :bow2
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 01, 2010, 04:09:12 PM
Fortune 500 companies are giving up on desktop pcs for employees, moving towards ipad only work environment?

:teehee

There may come a day where say some universities start housing more Macs than PCs, but the PC is going to own the workplace for the forseeable furture.
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Post by: Himu on June 01, 2010, 04:14:58 PM
I bet Methodis used a windows pc when making that post.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 01, 2010, 04:22:05 PM
Maybe he used a Droid
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 01, 2010, 04:29:58 PM
i have seen the future and it is cradled lovingly in the crook of my arm

even steve jobs knew sidehugging is the most natural of human interaction metaphors



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Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 01, 2010, 04:37:02 PM
Dunno, given Steve's opinion on porn is more conservative than yours, can we be sure he's open to human-on-human sidehugging?
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 01, 2010, 04:50:50 PM
steve exists in a place outside of conventional morality. when i talk with mild manufactured opprobrium about a man's weiner going into a person's poo hole, it is qualified as some kind of subjective "morality". when the king of apple masturbates to a live child getting its liver removed, it's sort of a divine right. conventional notions of pornography exist outside his royal corpus, as it were. should he approve of sidehugging, it would not come from a social moral position, but whether or not he felt the concept should exist within the greater sphere of THINGS THAT AROUSE HIS HOLY FLESH.

and i'm okay with that, because He gave us the iPad.
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Post by: Donono on June 01, 2010, 04:55:44 PM
 :lol

That'd be epic.  The east side would turn into a post-apocalyptic wasteland where wild bands of destitute unemployed rape and pillage to quench an unending thirst for technology.

The government would be forced to fence the entire area off with the electric fencing from Jurassic Park.
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Post by: brawndolicious on June 01, 2010, 04:57:43 PM
Fortune 500 companies are giving up on desktop pcs for employees, moving towards ipad only work environment?
:teehee
why don't they use linux?
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Post by: Saint Cornelius on June 01, 2010, 04:59:53 PM
when the king of apple masturbates to a live child getting its liver removed, it's sort of a divine right.

:lol
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 01, 2010, 06:10:23 PM
Are you going to hang an Apple bag outside your office and make your reports lick it, like this guy (http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/9/5/6/5/2/RB_WCF_Nuthouse.wmv)? 
(a little past the halfway point)
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Post by: Oblivion on June 01, 2010, 07:15:05 PM
courier :(

(http://www.blogcdn.com/chinese.engadget.com/media/2006/09/jallardinterview.jpg)

 :american

What ever happened to this nig, anyway?
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Post by: Himu on June 01, 2010, 07:19:07 PM
steve exists in a place outside of conventional morality. when i talk with mild manufactured opprobium about a man's weiner going into a person's poo hole, it is qualified as some kind of subjective "morality". when the king of apple masturbates to a live child getting its liver removed, it's sort of a divine right. conventional notions of pornography exist outside his royal corpus, as it were. should he approve of sidehugging, it would not come from a social moral position, but whether or not he felt the concept should exist within the greater sphere of THINGS THAT AROUSE HIS HOLY FLESH.

and i'm okay with that, because He gave us the iPad.
:lol :lol
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on June 01, 2010, 07:37:29 PM
I like that Methodis went the extra crazy step and anthropomorphized Microsoft.  I can see him writing angry letters addressed to "Mr. Microsoft" next.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/15cehp3.jpg)

world ending

:rofl
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Post by: ToxicAdam on June 01, 2010, 07:48:08 PM
MS is like the GM of the software world. No one likes them, yet they make billions of dollars and keep releasing decades of shitty products.

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Post by: Ichirou on June 01, 2010, 07:55:32 PM
Internet Explorer is still awful after all these years. :yuck
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Post by: Brehvolution on June 01, 2010, 08:04:27 PM
MS is like the GM of the software world. No one likes them, yet they make billions of dollars and keep releasing decades of shitty products.



Server 2008 is the shit.

:bow Hyper-V

:piss Having to install software on a virtual to make the mouse work. :piss2