Microsoft fined for patent breach

[papa_smurf]

Microsoft must pay $290m for patent infringement

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13722971

Only a matter of time before Microsoft got its comeuppance, but doubt they will learn from this.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13722971

Only a matter of time before Microsoft got its comeuppance, but doubt they will learn from this.

Microsoft is getting more than it's comeuppance nowadays. It's in active decline. They're just floundering about buying companies like Skype they really haven't figured out a use for. It's stocks are stagnant and hedge fund managers are calling for Steve Ballmer's head.

No one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore. They still make a lot of money----so does IBM, for that matter. Actually IBM recently passed Microsoft in earnings, which tells you the state of things. But who really worries about Big Blue anymore? Same for Microsoft.

Google and Apple are the most dangerous companies now by far, in both the good and bad senses of the word. Microsoft can at best limp along afterward.

[the_tyrant]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Microsoft is getting more than it's comeuppance nowadays. It's in active decline. They're just floundering about buying companies like Skype they really haven't figured out a use for. It's stocks are stagnant and hedge fund managers are calling for Steve Ballmer's head.

No one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore. They still make a lot of money----so does IBM, for that matter. Actually IBM recently passed Microsoft in earnings, which tells you the state of things. But who really worries about Big Blue anymore? Same for Microsoft.

Google and Apple are the most dangerous companies now by far, in both the good and bad senses of the word. Microsoft can at best limp along afterward.

Actually, In my opinion, its just the industry stabilizing
the computer industry has to stabilize someday, and the days of stock prices just shooting up should end

as for ibm, most people really have no idea how much influence IBM has over the computer industry, and how they make most of their profits

people think IBM is "dieing" simply because you don't see IBM products anymore. But really the truth is, making business products just have higher profit margins than consumer products.

also, I genuinely believe that there is a new "bubble" in the computer industry. someday people will figure out that social networking isn't worth that much, how advertising on social networking sites simply isn't that effective

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

...
Google and Apple are the most dangerous companies now by far, in both the good and bad senses of the word. Microsoft can at best limp along afterward. ...

I don't think so. While i'm the first to bash Microsoft, a market dominance of 85 percent speaks for itself. As well try running Apple or Google (? lol) in enterprises or big companies.
They use Unix and Linux, but a secure environment without the complex rules only possible with MS server infrastructure ? Try to do this with Linux, i wish you good luck.
What i do not like is the almost paranoid mind and forensic approach of the new MS products and philosophy, or the suicide rate among MS programmers (no joke), but you got to admit those MS products mostly work

All that aside who do you want to bash if MS left the market ?!

Greetings,
Catfish

[Platapus]

Microsoft has to pay $290,000,000 in fines?

Crikey, they may have to bust in to petty cash for that.

[vienna]

Microsoft has to pay $290,000,000 in fines?

Crikey, they may have to bust in to petty cash for that.

Microsoft has been reasonably candid about the state of the tech industry. Gates and Ballmer both warned, during the tech boom of the 90's, that MS shares were vastly over-valued as were shares for other companies. They predicted the bubble would burst with a devastating effect, but few would listen then. The other companies were to busy counting up the hoped for profits they would never see. This was repeated in the 2000's by the real estate and banking industries who also acted as if the party would never end...

By the way, does anyone know the ststaus of the patent infringement suit Microsoft brought against Apple for the "page turn" feature on the iPad and other products?...