Microsoft announced the lay-offs of another 3000 employees. I have the occasion to be in contact with many schools, and yesterday I had to spend yet another round of phone contact over some malfunctioning software issue within the school's computer system. Their system was the worst by far of any school I have seen, and I can think of maybe six major platforms schools use. The thing is loaded with the pointless, navigation is near impossible, help is non-existent and what it requires from users is in the most whimsical places. I was just shaking my head when I noticed at the bottom of the page:
Of course. If there are screwy, pointless problems, Microsoft products are at the core. Students can expect problems with receiving emails if they use hotmail (why anyone uses that is beyond me). And no doubt defenders will say "O, they need to upgrade." Yes, because Microsoft's history on upgrades has been stellar. Microsoft will be out of business, like Wang Computer which once had 33,000 employees, before it ever gets a working operating system on the market. And Wang actually had a string of successes over its lifetime, not just 3rd rate copying.
If you track the growth of government and the growth of Microsoft, you'll see they are the same. As government grew, from the early 1980s on, each new hire was issued a computer and a copy of MS-whatever and told to look busy. USA has been a wealth transfer from the productive to the unproductive for the last 30 years.
I recall in the 1980s when studies were done that showed PC computerization was a net deficit, and implementation of Mac was a slight advantage.
Now under Obama, the size of government is actually shrinking (right wingers hate to admit that.) Farming out government, in war to mercenaries and "health care" to "private industry (ha!)" has government intervention still growing, but these people are not buying PCs preloaded with MS-8 or whatever... these new, non-government hires want Apple, and so they get it.
If Microsoft had done the right thing and solved the spam issue back in the 1980s, the cost would have denied the top people their billions. But in capitalism, success is personal amassing of assets, not ever expanding beneficial goods and services widely distributed as in a free market. Capitalism is about leveraging government power to be a picked winner, instead of a targeted loser. That power resides in the ability to control the currency, and lend asset-less backed credit to the winners. Capitalism and usury are one.
Those 18,000 layoffs will leave a false economy job looking for work in the false economy. Google gets 7,000 applications for each opening I hear. Time to think about entering the real economy.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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Of course. If there are screwy, pointless problems, Microsoft products are at the core. Students can expect problems with receiving emails if they use hotmail (why anyone uses that is beyond me). And no doubt defenders will say "O, they need to upgrade." Yes, because Microsoft's history on upgrades has been stellar. Microsoft will be out of business, like Wang Computer which once had 33,000 employees, before it ever gets a working operating system on the market. And Wang actually had a string of successes over its lifetime, not just 3rd rate copying.
If you track the growth of government and the growth of Microsoft, you'll see they are the same. As government grew, from the early 1980s on, each new hire was issued a computer and a copy of MS-whatever and told to look busy. USA has been a wealth transfer from the productive to the unproductive for the last 30 years.
I recall in the 1980s when studies were done that showed PC computerization was a net deficit, and implementation of Mac was a slight advantage.
Now under Obama, the size of government is actually shrinking (right wingers hate to admit that.) Farming out government, in war to mercenaries and "health care" to "private industry (ha!)" has government intervention still growing, but these people are not buying PCs preloaded with MS-8 or whatever... these new, non-government hires want Apple, and so they get it.
If Microsoft had done the right thing and solved the spam issue back in the 1980s, the cost would have denied the top people their billions. But in capitalism, success is personal amassing of assets, not ever expanding beneficial goods and services widely distributed as in a free market. Capitalism is about leveraging government power to be a picked winner, instead of a targeted loser. That power resides in the ability to control the currency, and lend asset-less backed credit to the winners. Capitalism and usury are one.
Those 18,000 layoffs will leave a false economy job looking for work in the false economy. Google gets 7,000 applications for each opening I hear. Time to think about entering the real economy.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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