Microsoft Drove the Bus Off the Cliff, Now it Tries to Speed Up
July 23rd, 2013Via: SemiAccurate:
Microsoft has driven off the cliff into the death spiral and rather than change direction they are trying to speed up their ‘momentum’. Endless reorgs, paid analyst reports, and flat-out lying to anyone who will listen won’t help, they can not succeed from their current position.
Last fall SemiAccurate was one of the few voices criticizing Windows 8, WART, and Surface. The mainstream press seemed too welded to the MS advertising revenue stream to dare even hint that the emperor has no clothes, but anyone even looking at the facts had to admit the trio was doomed. In light of the utter meltdown of Surface that the company announced yesterday, let’s do a little recap before we point out why this $900 million loss is a minor bump in their death spiral.
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Perhaps Bill Gates & company made a ‘deal’ with the ‘devil’ in the late nineties to not break up the company?
United States v. Microsoft Corporation 253 F.3d 34 (2001) is a US antitrust law case, ultimately settled by the Department of Justice, where Microsoft Corporation was accused of becoming a monopoly and engaging in abusive practices contrary to the Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 sections 1 and 2. It was initiated on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 states.
Fast forward:
Microsoft was the first company to participate in PRISM (surveillance program), according to leaked NSA documents obtained by The Guardian and The Washington Post in June 2013, and acknowledged by government officials following the leak. The program authorizes the government to secretly access data of non-US citizens hosted by American companies without a warrant. Microsoft has denied the participation in such a program.
In July 2013, The Guardian elaborated that leaked documents show that
Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to intercept web chats on Outlook.com and gave it unencrypted access to Outlook.com and Hotmail email
Microsoft provided the NSA with access to users’ data on its cloud storage service SkyDrive
After Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism
In a statement, Microsoft said that they “provide customer data only in response to legal processes.”
They say the concept of Karma always keeps the timeline in balance … but mega corporations like Microsoft spawned the prison planet planned by the powerful NWO? Will Microsoft fall on the sword for it’s masters?
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