Microsoft, is the Flight fiasco a precurser to a larger problem?

**Paxx** · 07-28-2012, 01:04 PM

Similar to n4gix's observations on the Flight fiasco this article may explain why our hobby has been abandoned by MS.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2...-steve-ballmer

**alaskancrab** · 07-28-2012, 02:09 PM

If you look at Microsoft as purely Consumers Electronic company that article might be correct.. But the fact is Microsoft is in the productivity business... meaning they sell office, operating systems, and servers, and development tools. So considering the author is not a developer I find the articles absolutely useless. Call me when Fortune 500 companies switch to Linux, or google, or apple for anything...

**MdMax** · 07-28-2012, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by alaskancrab

Call me when Fortune 500 companies switch to Linux

http://www.jobstreet.com.ph/jobs/201...8362.htm?fr=21

**alaskancrab** · 07-28-2012, 02:30 PM

Yes a help desk job.. nice example. I'm talking about Enterprise software like AD which is pretty much used by everyone. heck even apple has support for AD.

**Adam24** · 07-28-2012, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by alaskancrab

Call me when Fortune 500 companies switch to Linux, or google, or apple for anything...

I can say, without lying, that google is bigger than microsoft. Bing, right?

**Paxx** · 07-28-2012, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by alaskancrab

If you look at Microsoft as purely Consumers Electronic company that article might be correct.. But the fact is Microsoft is in the productivity business... meaning they sell office, operating systems, and servers, and development tools. So considering the author is not a developer I find the articles absolutely useless. Call me when Fortune 500 companies switch to Linux, or google, or apple for anything...

Sure, Microsoft isn't going away anytime soon. Toast takes awhile to ... well, turn into toast. Waiting until 2018 for the toast factor to be gone is laughably insane. The toast will be done tho. Yay future.