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2012-05-04
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You do know that saying "they're in this for the long haul" is beating the dead horse too.
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2012-05-04
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Not really. The phrase is meant to apply to something dead, gone, kaput, finished, broken beyond repair, etc. Microsoft isn't there yet. And they still have the resources necessary to succeed; the questions is, as usual, one of execution.
And contrary to Danramos' assertion, Microsoft isn't irrelevent, either. No more than IBM was before their last successful reinvention. However, they are certainly on the cusp of irrelevancy.
Pessimists stand ready with that last nail and a hammer. They're a bit premature. It's easy to rattle off a list of failures as if they alone define a company. But that's as much a form of self-delusion as unfettered optimism is.
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2012-05-04
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2012-05-04
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2012-05-04
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And The Register is now reporting Nokia's had a class action suit filed against them in the US on behalf of shareholder for poor performance and misleading shareholders - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05..._class_action/
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2012-05-06
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Not really. The phrase is meant to apply to something dead, gone, kaput, finished, broken beyond repair, etc. Microsoft isn't there yet. And they still have the resources necessary to succeed; the questions is, as usual, one of execution.
And contrary to Danramos' assertion, Microsoft isn't irrelevent, either. No more than IBM was before their last successful reinvention. However, they are certainly on the cusp of irrelevancy.
Pessimists stand ready with that last nail and a hammer. They're a bit premature. It's easy to rattle off a list of failures as if they alone define a company. But that's as much a form of self-delusion as unfettered optimism is.
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2012-05-06
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2012-05-06
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for me nokia's failure have nothing to do with m$ and wp.... maybe they have to start it again from the beginning. it will take years to bring back their victory..
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2012-05-06
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I sincerely believe that it will be unlikely to have years to be able to come back to a "victory." I believe the era of Nokia's dominance is at a rightful end, for all its own executives' arrogance and ignorance toward customers.
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At our small company we talk about a 3-4 year push, and that doesn't mean that we're about to succeed in conquering the world. It means that officially, we're still employed.
I don't expect to hear Microsoft saying "Look, we're going to push Windows 8 as the next big thing up until, say October, but as soon as it hits the shelves, we're going to stop developing it and it'll not be replaced by the next thing that we'd usually already be looking at developing next".
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Last edited by volt; 2012-05-04 at 12:42.