Posts by MsftMacMan

one trick pony company ..in Revenue & Profit terms, that would place Apple far more at risk than Microsoft.  iPhone delivers well over 50% of Apple profits...  a big risk, when your loosing share in the phone market -...

Great to see educated comment from someone who hasn't even made the effort to try and use what they criticise so easily.

While you can debate the level of user acceptance for Windows 8 (it's a on one level a radical change to the UI that will certainly divide opinion (already has clearly!) it's not correct to say that it will not be ready, indeed...

Quote: Originally Posted by geoffrobinson Microsoft has wasted billions of dollars in pursuit of growth. Money that should have been returned to the shareholders in the form of dividends. My unsolicited advice: break them apart into...

Quote: Originally Posted by jbruni Ditto for me. When I bought Snow Leopard I was looking forward to Exchange integration with iCal. No luck since we use Exchange 2003. When Office 2011 came out, I was looking forward to a full Outlook...

Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody Several people have pointed out that it's something that customers would want to get in their store (Office), but I think you're looking at it wrong when you talk about how popular it is. As...

And that others (IBM, Samsung and Microsoft were reported). It's interesting that Microsoft who typically take a great deal of abuse in these pages for 'lack of innovation' have so many patents awarded .. clearly many are not in the...

Quote: Originally Posted by tundraBuggy Microsoft IS indeed a dying company, they are down 13% and competition is Up 50%. Plus they have an idiot who thinks he's a visionary running the company. Sorry, i know I shouldn't waste my time...

Quote: Originally Posted by salamandyr i agree. lack of pivot tables is absurd. maybe MS doesn't want Excel used to do exploratory or serious statistical data work? what i don't get is why they wouldn't want Excel to compete on the Mac...

Quote: Originally Posted by DESuserIGN No pivot tables! Really? I guess I'll continue to use use NeoOffice and donate money to them rather than get ripped off by Microsoft. They've had a pretty mac-like interface for quite a while now...