[Am-info] Re: X-Box Dud

[sturde@az.com]

In <20020411160101.4DF9429BC3@lists.essential.org>, on 04/11/02 
   at 12:01 PM, am-info-request@venice.essential.org said:

>I think I said here a week or so ago that Xbox is a big dud.

It confirms what I have maintained, that when MS gets beyond the world it
cannot bully and manipulate, i.e. where there is in fact true competition,
it fails.  We on this list have no problem with people wanting to buy MS
products.  We want software available for other operating systems.

Last week end I talked to a friend, a MS keister kisser.  Everyone is
picking on MS.  Even though every judge who has dealt with MS has
lambasted it, judges are wrong, again and again.  MS created the first
office suite.  He became incensed when I suggested he was delusional.  But
who knows.  The dumbing down of standards.

It is interesting that a recent WSJ stated that Greenspan is insisting
that granted stock options be written off against current income.  It
seemed to believe Greenspan would succeed.  It listed several companies it
would hurt including Novelle.  I mentioned this to my friend in regard to
MS.  He replied, "Stock options have been around a long time and everyone
does it."  Mike on this list insists that the present stock option use is
a MS creative accounting invention along with a slush fund to even out
earnings cycles.  Of course, the WSJ commented that GE had a slush fund to
even out earnings cycles so it could create an aura of the inevitability
of growth.

I wonder what the robber barons of the late 19th/c. would think of all of
this.

James Sturdevant

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