Microsoft ready to take a fall?

[unixronin]

technoshaman found this article in the UK's Enquirer (not to be confused with the US-supermarket National Enquirer tabloid) which says that Microsoft is in deep financial trouble.  They've shot themselves in the foot with their new lease-as-you-go licensing scheme and their 100% price increases trying to support their loss-leader products like MSN and XBox and ... well, everything except Office and WinXP, actually.  A third of their customer base has deserted them, and they don't have enough revenues to cook the books and pad their numbers, and no reserves left to cash in to show an on-paper profit.  The US press has sat on the story, but it leaked out anyway.

If you have money in Microsoft stock, this might be a good time to quietly move it elsewhere.  The giant appears to have tripped, and if it falls, it's gonna fall hard.

It's going to be interesting, in the Chinese sense, to see how this shakes out...

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[rbos.livejournal.com]

indeed.