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Microsoft should starve on radical penguin diet

Written By
MA
Matt Asay
Jul 31, 2010

“When the mouthpiece of American capitalism calls a company a
dog, it’s time to re-evaluate that company’s chances.

“In Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Holman Jenkins,
Jr asks if “Steve Ballmer is a failed CEO?” then forecasts
Microsoft’s feeble future even as it banks record profits.
Microsoft is a company stuck in the glory years of the 1980s and
1990s – truly glorious years for a company that built not one but
two massive cash cows: Windows and Office.

“To remain relevant in the future, however, Microsoft must build
a third.”


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