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1 posted on 07/17/2014 8:35:02 AM PDT by Scutter
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Obviously Bush’s fault.


2 posted on 07/17/2014 8:38:44 AM PDT by vpintheak (I will not comply!)
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But Billy Gates says we need these illegals and amnesty because tech companies need the labor. I guess the memo din’t make it to the new CEO’s desk.


3 posted on 07/17/2014 8:43:58 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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So they either bought a competitor to destroy it, or they’re going broke from 0’s Hope&Change economy.


4 posted on 07/17/2014 8:47:56 AM PDT by wdk535
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So they either bought a competitor to destroy it, or they’re going broke from 0’s Hope&Change economy.


7 posted on 07/17/2014 8:52:09 AM PDT by wdk535
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When we said Windows 8 was a pile of sh!t. You should have listened.


11 posted on 07/17/2014 9:09:17 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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I’m surprised Microsoft is still viable. They reached their peak years ago. Each new Office and Windows version gets worse and worse, making some features harder to find.


12 posted on 07/17/2014 9:13:41 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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“a cloud-computing and mobile-friendly software company.”

Yeah, good luck with that. Zune, Bing, Hotmail, Windows Phone...I can’t think of many Microsoft catch-up products that have been able to achieve much of anything other than the XBox, and if I remember correctly, that division is still struggling to make profit.

What worries me, as an IT professional, is how companies like Microsoft are following this mobile-centric, cloud-centric direction: by dumbing down technology. Many people today have no idea how to use computers. They only know dependency.

I’ve lost track of how many people think that teens or twentysomethings are technological prodigies because they know how to use Facebook and Gmail. Try asking one of them to troubleshoot a wireless connection or swap out a motherboard and watch the blank stares.


13 posted on 07/17/2014 9:17:04 AM PDT by Cato in PA (Resist!)
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MS squandered billions buying Nokia which is headed downward due to South Korean/Taiwanese competition on cell phones/smart phone

I knew it was a foolish deal!


15 posted on 07/17/2014 9:20:03 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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That’s a lot. It’s going to have an adverse affect on our neighborhood. I feel sorry for some of the neighbor’s if they get laid off. They live in million dollar homes, how will they be able to make the mortgage payments?


17 posted on 07/17/2014 9:56:02 AM PDT by Vinylly (?%)
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Still waiting to see the mythical open source Exchange killer.


23 posted on 07/17/2014 7:58:52 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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I don’t know about this phone stuff, but I can tell you, IE 10 blew up a lot of websites.


25 posted on 07/17/2014 10:14:17 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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They will be begging for more H1B’s at the same time.


26 posted on 07/18/2014 5:41:02 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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Bill Gates is working to institute Common Core standards because he doesn’t want new Microsoft employees, he wants new tech support customers. Bill Gates is trying to create a Cargo Cult of idiots worshipping at the altar of Microsoft tech support.


27 posted on 07/18/2014 9:51:00 AM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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