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"Yeah, the something right is the CEO is being ousted and the company is expected to make major changes in its business model. They must have been doing great."

that's usually a reason to be at a 12 year low.


[Edited on November 19, 2013 at 11:22 AM. Reason : ]

11/19/2013 11:22:06 AM

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" the guy is in his early 20's and uses a touchscreen laptop. And he uses the FUCK out of modern apps. Mail/Lync/Skydrive/Onenote and even runs chrome in the "Metro" mode."

change that to late 20's, and that's me and everyone in my office. on a touchscreen laptop its an incredible productivity tool, i even stopped using my fancy windows 8 touchpad thing and only use a regular mouse now.

11/19/2013 12:27:44 PM

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"Yeah, the something right is the CEO is being ousted and the company is expected to make major changes in its business model. They must have been doing great."

That started happening almost 3 years ago. Ballmer saw the writing on the wall and started making massive changes, but (as he admitted in a recent interview) it was apparent that he was part of the problem preventing Microsoft from really completing the transformation needed.

Doing great is a relative term, but the company hasn't been doing badly in pure bottom line terms. Just no longer the growth monster that Wall Street demands. I think Microsoft is starting back on the growth track again.

11/19/2013 3:58:33 PM

getting rid of stack ranking was a good step, but until theres some serious backpeddling on metro for desktops/laptops I don't think anyones gonna take claims of getting back on track seriously.

11/19/2013 4:33:38 PM

Google has taken a step back from the brink by starting to label it's search engine advertisements as such. Next step...google video ads playing automatically in search results. But at least they'll have nice little yellow "Ad" labels beside them.

Microsoft, meanwhile, is demonstrating it has no sense of shame by selling "Keep calm while we steal your data." coffee mugs.

11/21/2013 4:38:30 PM

Is a "sense of shame" a pre-requisite for a successful business these days?

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12/6/2013 11:22:02 PM