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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture =?UTF-8?B?ZGVzaWduZXI/?= Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:01:34 +0000 Organization: Rocksolid Light Message-ID: <f48d31eaa3dda0667eff538fbee3b692@www.novabbs.org> References: <memo.20240913205156.19028s@jgd.cix.co.uk> <vcd7lo$3op6a$2@dont-email.me> <vcdele$293s$1@gal.iecc.com> <vcdstq$3vei1$1@dont-email.me> <vcfdld$525$1@gal.iecc.com> <vcfu73$9bc9$2@dont-email.me> <vcgiq7$fmaa$3@dont-email.me> <87h6ab33p3.fsf@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2679729"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="65wTazMNTleAJDh/pRqmKE7ADni/0wesT78+pyiDW8A"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$316VYHfSs7/YfJ8bw431BuLJempw2daEqzRrwNzuhuAGsbGaXpQNW X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Posting-User: ac58ceb75ea22753186dae54d967fed894c3dce8 Bytes: 2642 Lines: 28 On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:20:56 +0000, Lynn Wheeler wrote: > David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes: >> No, it is a classic sign of a company that has found a way to get a >> fairly stable revenue stream with a predictable path for the future. >> >> When their main income was selling Windows and Office licenses, they >> were dependent on a continuously increasing market - that model was >> doomed as they approached saturation. A subscription model does not >> have such limitations, even if the user base is not growing >> significantly. > > 1996 MSDC Moscone, all the banners said "Internet" ... but the constant > refrain in the sessions were protect your investment (data file embedded > VS Basic automagic execution, evolved in the days of small, safe, > business LANs ... but no new protections opening networking to the wild > anarchy of the internet). > > MS employees were commenting that customers had been buying the latest > releases for the new features ... but it had reached the point where the > releases they were running now had 98% of the features they wanted (and > the company wasn't sure what to do next). In particular, MS has not added anything I want in Office since 2003 and in the OS in particular since 2005. Windows 7 is still better than windows 10 or 11 or 12... MS would make more money by allowing old OSs to keep running and sent the employees home...