Microsofts 10 Unlucky Breaks
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversIt's Friday the 13th, the unluckiest day of the year. How unlucky has been Microsoft over the past 34 years?
This is the first of two parts. We'll be back with "Microsoft's 10 Lucky Breaks" when Friday the 13th returns in March. Yes, your lucky day will come around that soon.]
Microsoft has had many lucky breaks over the years. The company's rise through the 1980s and 1990s is really a series of lucky breaks combined with business savvy and execution on the vision of one PC on every desk.
More recently, Microsoft hasn't been so lucky. Since the mid-1990s, the company has stumbled a few times and been unlucky even more often. Recent unluckiness is so great, I had a really hard time whittling down this list to just 10 items. I consulted the independent analysts at Directions on Microsoft for their advice; these guys have followed Microsoft since 1992, and some of the analysts are former employees.
10. Windows XP launch.
9. Stock doldrums.
8. Passing on YouTube.
7. Linus Torvalds develops Linux.
6. Apple's May and October surprises.
5. Windows Vista.
4. The Google economy.
3. September 2008 economic crisis.
2. The United States vs. Microsoft.
1. World Wide Web.
source:
microsoft-watch.com
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Comments(3)
in some cultures 13 is considered a lucky number and others that 7 is but 7 is unlucky
in others.. just like 6 is considered 6 the devils number, we as humans are based on
religion even though god is fake but people need something to believe in like the sheep
they are.
unlucky? most of these are ms f-ups and would never have been a big issue if ms had an
ounce of software design talent.
this was actually a lucky break because the bush administration came into the picture
right when the us was preparing to do something substative about microsoft' monopoly.
the 'business-friendly' bush folks dismantled the remedy phase, making the whole trial
into a huge nop.
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What 13 is unlucky 7 is unlucky
By DoomProtectorPhobos on 16.02.2009 - 16:02