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Story: Microsoft can't out-cool Apple

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You couldn't be more correct!

Microsoft has always come late to any new trend in technology but been able to buy, steal or extinguish any market leaders product. It's much harder to do when they can't use their Windows platform as the blunt instrument to force conformity and mediocrity on the masses.

Consumers are getting MUCH smarter these days and who knows, perhaps even businesses will wake up some time in the future. Ballmer is correct about being at a tipping point in the consumer space, and they are terrified, because if they have to COMPETE on MERIT Microsoft has NEVER won a market.

Expect some dramatic operating system level attacks on the Windows customer base to foreclose any competitors products abilities on the Windows platform because thats their ONLY point of power and control. With Longhorn now being exposed as the vaporware it always was and still years away, Microsoft is in DEEP trouble, so expect some drastic alternate measure and expect to be screwed as a Windows user.

Innovation has always been Apples game while Microsoft has simply brain washed the masses into believing crappie imitation of innovations years later is what 'real innovation' is. They have never understood a customer base, nor have they ever gave a dam about their customers so changing this culture is like making Windows secure, impossible even with drastic measures.

Microsoft's stock has stagnated for a very long time now and it has nowhere to go, but down. The only question now is how precipitous the fall and when do the masses wake up to this fact. It could be while if the Windows base and their reaction to the plague of viruses is any indication. Some of the smarter ones are waking to the fact that for years there hasn't been a single successful virus attack on the Mac OS. When the shift from Windows to the Mac is recognized and reported by the media, we will have passed the tipping point, a pray you have no Microsoft shares.

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