It would not be a good thing if Microsoft suddenly, all-at-once shut down. 95% of the computer industry relies on them. The industry would be crippled for a while, and have to get its shit together.
Well actually that's exactly why Microsoft has that much money. The theory some people have is that that amount is enough for Microsoft to keep running for an entire year without any revenue. Not just profit (because Windows and Office are the only profit generating products); I mean ZERO products being sold.
Why?
Well suppose some court orders Microsoft to cease sales until the outcome of the trial (any trial not just this instance). See? They'd keep on keeping on burning through that cash.
Imagine. The order comes down and 85% of Microsoft products are ordered off the shelves and online stores and Microsoft still operating for twelve months. Few to no other company could survive six weeks under similar conditions.
Crazy. What the market would look like when they get back on the shelves is a different matter. (But then of course there are places still chugging along on Windows 95). \
As for Microsoft winning by default, don't jump to that too quickly. The anti-trust trial was wrapped quickly because the Executive Branch changed hands for a rather more pro-business ideology. And that trial, laughably, focused on browser market share.
This? This is about patents and stolen code. Much. Bigger. Deal.
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Originally posted by rok
i don't think even God could shut down microsoft and its glacial, juggernaut momentum anymore.
I seem to recall people saying the same think about God and the Titanic.
Or, put more eloquently, from the movie "Forrest Gump":
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: Where's your God now, Forrest?
Forrest Gump: [narrating] Y'know, it's funny he said that, because right then, at that very moment, God showed UP.
Originally posted by Dog Almighty
It would not be a good thing if Microsoft suddenly, all-at-once shut down. 95% of the computer industry relies on them. The industry would be crippled for a while, and have to get its shit together.
Well actually that's exactly why Microsoft has that much money. The theory some people have is that that amount is enough for Microsoft to keep running for an entire year without any revenue. Not just profit (because Windows and Office are the only profit generating products); I mean ZERO products being sold.
Why?
Well suppose some court orders Microsoft to cease sales until the outcome of the trial (any trial not just this instance). See? They'd keep on keeping on burning through that cash.
Imagine. The order comes down and 85% of Microsoft products are ordered off the shelves and online stores and Microsoft still operating for twelve months. Few to no other company could survive six weeks under similar conditions.
Crazy. What the market would look like when they get back on the shelves is a different matter. (But then of course there are places still chugging along on Windows 95).
As for Microsoft winning by default, don't jump to that too quickly. The anti-trust trial was wrapped quickly because the Executive Branch changed hands for a rather more pro-business ideology. And that trial, laughably, focused on browser market share.
This? This is about patents and stolen code. Much. Bigger. Deal.
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Originally posted by sCreeD
But then of course there are places still chugging along on Windows 95).
heck, almost every bank branch i have dealt with over the past seven years still work with DOS. nice, stable, does the job they need it to do.