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Story: Ballmer: Software is becoming a service

Posted by: Alain Zola (Monday 31 July 2006, 3:59 AM)

Mr Ballmer would do well to stick to what he seems to know best: Monkey Dancing.

In plunging ahead with its line of LIVE pay-as-you-go, tightly controlled Microsoft proprietary software, no doubt inspiring Ballmer to dance at the prospect of fleecing ever more "Live Ones", Microsoft has chosen to compete with all the independent producers of software whom it has roped in, profited from and tied in licensing knots for years.

Microsoft, under the likes of Ballmer, will loose its control of the consumer market, a trend now firming in Europe and in some of the not so united states...

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Mr Ballmer would do well to stick to what he seems... Alain Zola

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