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  "map_content": "I have a cunning plan, milord!\r\n\nI don\u2019t think you all grasp the cunningness of Microsoft\u2019s new strategy. It\u2019s well known that Microsoft\u2019s biggest competitor is\u2026 Microsoft themselves. Convincing people to upgrade to their latest-and-greates product has always been an uphill struggle for Microsoft. Microsoft has such a stranglehold on the market that no new product -not even their own- can break that iron grip.\n\nBut with Vista, the marketing geniuses at Microsoft have come up with a plan to finally break that viselike grip. If the problem is that Microsoft\u2019s marketshare is too big, then there\u2019s only one thing to do: convince consumers to stop buying Microsoft products. Only then will Microsoft have a fair chance at breaking into the market that Microsoft now controls.\n\nThis isn\u2019t the first time Microsoft has utilized this strategy; they tested the waters with WindowsME. However, Microsoft hedged their bets back then with the concurrent release of Windows2000. But WinME proved their tactics had merit; they created such a despicable product that consumers flocked to WindowsXP.\n\nNow, with the imminent release of Vista, Microsoft is betting the entire company; there is no \"backup\" product to save the day in case the strategy flops, as was Windows2000. Microsoft has put all its eggs in the basket with Vista, and they have worked hard to make sure Vista is something nobody wants. It has only the minimum of improvments while at the same time necessitating obscenely high hardware requirements to make use of those features. Microsoft is also -as this latest development shows- injected their new flagship OS with as many painful ways to restrict the consumer in how he uses the software he has paid for. So not only is it a product nobody needs, not only is it a product nobody wants, but it is also a product that doesn\u2019t do anything well. Vista is sure to flop, costing Microsoft billions of dolllars and a significant percentage of their marketshare. Microsoft has even gotten their games division involved; all future Microsoft games will be Vista (DirectX 10) only; when Vista inevitably flops, so will all those games.\n\nAnd then, when Microsoft is shattered by its own incompetance, that\u2019s when Microsoft will swoop in for the kill.*\n\nDevious and cunning. Who says Microsoft doesn\u2019t innovate?\n\r\n\u2014\u2014-\r\n\nAnd nothing has changed today.\n\nOriginally from /. - https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=200525&cid=16418441",
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