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If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

Steve Jobs, in 1996 (via emonk)

Now put these charts showing where Apple and Microsoft get their revenue from in perspective, and the quote becomes very interesting. The iPhone business makes up 40% of Apple’s revenue, and that business did not even exist 3 years ago.

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Posted 7 months ago

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When we were building the tablet PC in 2001, the vice president in charge of Office at the time decided he didn’t like the concept. The tablet required a stylus, and he much preferred keyboards to pens and thought our efforts doomed. To guarantee they were, he refused to modify the popular Office applications to work properly with the tablet. So if you wanted to enter a number into a spreadsheet or correct a word in an e-mail message, you had to write it in a special pop-up box, which then transferred the information to Office. Annoying, clumsy and slow.

Dick Brass [Microsoft’s Creative Destruction]

Why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, has failed to bring us the future.

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Posted 11 months ago

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Microsoft teaches Best Buy employees how to troll Linux users

This has to be a new low.

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Posted 1 year ago

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Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.

I’m still a bit fuzzy on how this OS will work. But hey, pretty exciting nonetheless.

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