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        <title><![CDATA[New Competitor?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Debra, I completely agree with you. Apple has carved out their identity in the market as notoriously hip, unique and innovative. It would be wise of Windows to create their own path rather than emulating this one. However, do you think there may be another ???Apple??? that is currently unknown, waiting in the wings to shake up the industry?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[TuneUp Utilities]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:03:05 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Trackback - Important to know for everyone #Windows 8#]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349498-3514274]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/microsoft-is-marketing-windows-8-to-developers-not-to-me-and-you/5194]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Spexi]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:03:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yeah, you're right!  Microsoft will be out of business within a year.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That is, if your statement about &quot;MS HAS NO HOPE&quot; is to be believed.But, Microsoft has a lot more going for it than Apple or Google, as far as products and services are concerned.  Microsoft has been doing a lot more in the R&amp;D areas than Apple, and Apple is still dependent upon its iPods and iPhones and iPads and Macs; 4 products, which are rapidly becoming stale.  Meanwhile, Microsoft, with is many products and services, for the consumer and enterprise environments, continues to chug along, even beating Apple in the profits area.  So, perhaps your predictions about &quot;no hope&quot; is targeting the wrong company?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[adornoe]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:39:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Really!?! What part of anti-trust laws prohibit Microsoft from making its]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349498-3513553]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[own PCs?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[adornoe]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:31:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[here]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[here is the most important thing you said &quot;Microsoft should listen more to it's customers; currently it only appears to listen to it's corporate customers. Whilst these are important what about the zillions of PCs in peoples homes and how does MS find out what these people want/need?&quot; Microsoft might have more fans than apple does but if the star ignores the fan, the love turns to? Yes hate, disdain, indifference. They are just locked up in their own world and have missed tons of things because of this. They'll keep missing things until they have a listening culture.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vezycash]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:38:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[yes they did!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Fine microsoft did not put in billions into apple (just 150 million) but they put in something much more valuable. Trust - microsoft lent its credibility at the time to Apple by investing and holding its stock. This gave millions of customers that almighty Microsoft saw something that they didn't - well thank Jobs for that smart move.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vezycash]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:34:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[true but]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Anti-trust department would not allow microsoft to make its own pc &quot;however low priced&quot;. For the tablet market, you can expect Apple to keep leading at least for 2 years. Why? Hp touch pad, Playbook, galaxy tab... over priced more than the over priced apple products! not only that, they even have little or no apps developed for their platform.The success of the mobile windows 8 strategy lies not in the software itself but in the availability of low priced hardware. There seems not to be any deal between microsoft and a smaller manufacturer somewhere in china to pursue this strategy aggressively.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vezycash]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:31:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[harsh]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[i like your hard comments - simply the truth. but here's a question, should those 90% dumb users f**k up users who are smart enough to know what they want?I know you're smart, but you and I were once dumb. (no offence) if microsoft makes their stuff *too safe* would it not mean that the amount of smart users would decline rapidly?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vezycash]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:27:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[hmmm]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[here is the problem, a lot of people are undecided, do not know what they want or do not know why they want what they want and that is where Ms is loosing. If its getting bad press, millions of people in this category would jump ship in a heart beat. The only thing keeping them from doing this most of the time is high cost of apple devices (which apple managed to correct for iphone, ipad)Not only that, software support is for apple is not as good as Microsoft but in the apple's mobile stuff (software support is better than the rest)I guess, i jumped off point - millions of people actually take note of this &quot;microsoft vs apple&quot; stories and those people can easily be mislead because they really do not know what they want.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vezycash]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:22:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[thumbs up]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[you've got a lot of things right especially about microsoft envying apple's market.The ipad would have lost to microsoft if not because the micro boys decided to go into the expensive market with the 'surface table thing'. Since microsoft is not too kin  about or great in marketing, branding and sugar coating words, it should go back to its roots - develop for the masses, deal with the virus problems as they come or better yet, include an dummy friendly way to quickly reinstate its products back to their original state without requiring a masters degree in computer science (i believe this is already a feature in win 8). this is all that matters.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vezycash]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:16:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pr stunts]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Microsoft clearly has hard income flowing in on a yearly basis - yet its stock price pales in comparism to Apple and google why? communication, share buyers have simply lost faith in Microsoft.As for Bing, tools that facilitate user or geeky collaboration would push the search engine to a more favorable position against Google. Trust me, web owners are tired of Google's ranking storms. for windows 8, the app store model is okay by me but I feel the company turns a blind eye to data it collects. The metro app stuff would not be too popular if apps can't be transferred and installed on another machine. Microsoft should note that if developers want to be treated like ****, they'll go develop for apple. It needs better, favourable publicity]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vezycash]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:08:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[hmmm]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[not all but marketing has got a huge part to play. In one book about its history, proper marketing launched the brand into spotlight but as soon as they got to the top, marketing went out of the window.Take a look at all official ipad videos - you get the feeling that these engineers were not really enineers as they spoke the language everyday users could understand. In contrast, take a look at the videos from windows 8 blogs and you'll see geeks speaking in geek speak. Normal users would not be able to follow or appreciate what they have done.Marketing as well has made all most mac users claim that there are no viruses for mac - no antivirus needed.Marketing is also what has made someone brag to me that he has an Itunes account... Hope you get the point.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vezycash]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:59:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Don't underestimate repackaging, though.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A lot of people knew the earth was round, and Columbus &quot;repackaged&quot; that idea. Do we care who of his contemporaries also would have sailed across the ocean, if they'd have felt like it? Hell no.Ad victorem spolias, that's Latin and means &quot;The repackager gets the credit&quot;Jest aside, &quot;repackaging&quot; usually means taking something now idle, and putting it to use at its full potential. No mean feat. There are thousands of technologies out there, right now, that are not living up to their potentials. If we had thousands of repackagers to work those technologies, the world economy would be back on track in a year!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:58:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What?!!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since when did MS not (try to) follow (blindly &amp; stupidly) follow Apple tracks?The problem with MS is its company culture and employment criterea. Both cannot lead to neither innovation, nore to successful imulation. The only way MS can have any chance of success in the future is to simply get rid of the majority of its employees, and put all of its resaurces (i.e. only money) into finding a Steve Jobs to lead it. And since the decisions to do that has to be taken by its current leaders, pethetic ones, MS HAS NO HOPE.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[neldeeb@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:23:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&amp;quot;Don't you get it?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[....Skynet IS the virus!&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[hippiekarl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:52:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It was the ads?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'd ascribed the popularity of X Box (Live, 360, with or without Kinect) to its platform-exclusive 'Halo' game franchise, and retail bundles of X Box and whatever COD title was current at the time of purchase. Most X Box owners with a Kinect unit accessorized themselves with it when it came out, as they already had the MS (instead of Sony) console. Both companies' units (PS Move and X Box Kinect) have such cool 'motion-capture controlled' games--for little kids especially--that whichever console a customer already had (the majority already being X Box due, I thought, to 'Halo's popularity) was the one for which they bought their motion-capture unit. But it was the ads, after all? I quit 'watching TV' a number of years ago (just after the time of the vicious-but-funny 'anti-Vista' ads; I remember seeing them); this is the type of misconception to which I'm prone now that I don't view 'TV programming'.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[hippiekarl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:44:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This article is full of hate and pure speculation, rather projection]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[So dont worry.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Derteufel]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:26:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Are you sure?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sometimes, Mark, I wonder which one I'm at.  Plus the &quot;cross-posting&quot;by the various bloggers adds to the perception!  With the exceptionallylarge increase in the number of &quot;spammer&quot; posts of late, actual on-topicdiscussions could almost be declared an &quot;endangered species&quot;!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wizard57m-cnet]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:33:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Marketing strategy? And, again, trash talk]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nothing new in what you say, while Microsoft is barely coming from behind into this art of negative advertisement.This may be extrapolated to many other examples: for starters, PC vs Mac marketing campaign created by Apple.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ScarF]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:19:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Quality must be the focus]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Let me bring a European view as a retired IT manager now doing IT support for a local charity. Apple is unique and no one should try to copy it but learn from what it has done well. Apple has always been innovative although the main momentum came from Xerox and I was fortunate in working for Xerox when the Altos were going down the production line in El Segundo and Star workstations were being used in the drawing office. We had one of the resulting Lisas back at my next company in the UK as Steve spotted the future. Apple oozes quality and home-user vision. Microsoft has never been an innovative company; it has virtually always bought in innovation and that won't change as the bigger the company the less it will innovate. That doesn't necessarily matter but what the customer wants is quality i.e. it does what it says on the tin and you can plan ahead in your organisation. I understand the problem of lack of future announcements as I've also been in the same position with new computer products I launched and had to keep secret. Forget the 'Gartners'. This is a very US-centric thing to have industry analysts who measure what everyone is doing and play it back to them for a fee. The result is a convergence to the average. Microsoft should listen more to it's customers; currently it only appears to listen to it's corporate customers. Whilst these are important what about the zillions of PCs in peoples homes and how does MS find out what these people want/need? Quality is all and Apple have been very good at that. MS have been getting better but there are still many areas for bug-fixes and improvement. Have you ever tried to set-up networking with Win 7 PCs using shared resources on a peer-to-peer network? It's a lot worse than XP but MS were obviously trying to make it better but failed. I could go on and others will have their own favourites. Where do I provide my feedback? There are forums I use but MS staff replies often suggest a workround rather than saying 'I'll get that fixed at the next Release or in Win 8'. If I perceive they are really trying to fix existing weakness rather than bloating the next Windows with yet more 'features' then I will see them moving towards Apples' quality branding and they will achieve their own status as a quality company in their own right. Constantly launching new Windows versions every 2 years to maintain revenue streams via upgrade sales is not the way forward. Provide fewer more stable platforms and charge more for the OEM licences would make me happier.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[davidjbell@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:04:22 -0700</pubDate>
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