Anti-Misleading Talk Also Misleads ⇢

I am helping MG Seigler by reducing his weasel wording and temporizing about Microsoft’s financials and his reading of the tea leaves.

MG Seigler via parislemon

[…] what we’re seeing in Microsoft’s numbers right now is the full-on shift of the company towards enterprise. To be clear, I think the company will remain alive and probably even thrive in that regard for a long time. I just think the time of their consumer dominance is already over. And within the next decade, it will be completely over. 

I think at that point, Microsoft will be an enterprise software and services company with a strange, but successful gaming sub-division that will probably be spun off by then. 

I totally agree.

Oh, and maybe Facebook will buy the Windows 8 code: they need an OS, bad. And Nokia to make the phones.

20 July 2012 46 parislemon
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  1. joacosnchz reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    Solo pienso que la era del dominio de Microsoft en compras ya terminó. ‘I just think the time of their consumer...
  2. cschrader reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    I just think the time of their consumer dominance is already over. And within the next decade, it will be completely...
  3. bookofdoomed reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    A company in slow motion decline for sure. Let me add, again, I think Siegler’s maybe too optimistic. Can’t see a...
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    it’s funny how much he dislikes...non-Apple products....much...
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    am helping MG Seigler...reducing his weasel wording and temporizing about
  10. backwardincompatible reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    I agree so much with the line of thought that I just had to reblog this
  11. vanzelst reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    Interesting… If...be? Perfectly happy with my OSx systems,
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