All Hail Microsoft!!
I have written entries about technical matters before and the feedback (OK, one person) has not been positive. I’m a techie and these issues affect me and my livelihood so I’ll remark on them. I cant’ help it, sorry.
Just finished this interesting article over at OS Opinion that makes me a bit angry. It’s about Microsoft of course and some new information that’s been made available from the SEC. After Enron there are a few new rules that corporations must follow, the rules involve public disclosure of profits and costs. I’m not a money guy so the rules are a bit over my head but Microsoft had to disclose it’s financial dealing in a way it hasn’t before. Microsoft loses money on just about every product it releases except operating systems and Office. Those product earn over 85% profit, monopolies are good for earnings. They sit on $40bn in reserves and don’t pay any profits to shareholders. The economy and especially the tech side is in the dumps right now, the US and Japan are my prime concerns. Couldn’t that money do more good in the economy rather than a bank? I know that money in a bank gives banks freedom to invest. I don’t consider just giving the money away, I believe in a free economy. Microsoft has been gauging costumers so long that those customers don’t know better any more. These customers could be using the money to stop laying of personnel, or to invest in new technologies. Until this article I never had anything personal against M$ even with it’s inferior products and the marketing machine that made it the monopoly it is today. Now I’m convinced that Bill Gates in the Great Satan.
