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On 06/16/2012 02:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:04 +0300 |
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> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 16/06/12 21:27, walt wrote: |
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>>> I guess they figure the desktop will be extinct relatively soon |
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>>> and their customer base will vanish unless they capture the |
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>>> smartphone market. |
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>> Ah yes, the death of the desktop PC, which is happening for 15 years |
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>> now. |
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>> Are we dead yet? |
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> Fine comment. |
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> Yes indeed, Microsoft's *real* cash cow - millions of corporate |
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> desktops running $LATEST_WINDOWS and $LATEST_OFFICE are all going to |
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> die out in the next year. Not. |
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True enough. I'm forced to live in exactly that environment at work. |
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A couple of years ago some beancounters discovered that the City of |
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Los Angeles could save $BIG-MONEY by dumping MS and switching to the |
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for-profit version of google docs. That caused a big stink over |
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security and reliability, naturally, but in the end the beancounters |
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won the argument. Corporations got beancounters too, ya know ;) |
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