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I think the general problem is that MS needs to keep their stock valuable (which generally means increasing profits). It's hard to sell shit without some sugar-coating / forcing.

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Originally Posted by TFA

More broadly, every computer manufacturer and customer is free to install and promote any operating system, any application, and any Web service on PCs that run Windows.

I wonder if that means we'll stop having to pay the Microsoft tax on machines that will be running free OSs?

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Originally Posted by Jebediah

I think the general problem is that MS needs to keep their stock valuable (which generally means increasing profits).

That is what AT&T did for some decades as they consumed their own capital to pretend to have profits. You should know why AT&T does not exist (why even its name was sold).

GM is doing the same thing. Been doing it for decades. As a result their top management will reap major incomes while their pension funds will be dumped on you and me. GM is also selling surge coated crap. And doing so because, again, so many Americans like sugar (and 'heart attack of America' Chevys).

In each case, the only solution is management change. It happened in to make IBM became productive in the latter half of 1990s. MSFT needs management shakeup. Hopefully that public statement comes from a management change - and is not frosting from Balmer.

Again, notice that MSFT is having product development problems now that Steve Balmer has been running MS. Balmer is an MBA.