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Microsoft: Innovator--NO , Toll Collector--YES

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mbigna

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I thought that you would like to read an interesting take on Microsoft as a business here:

http://software.seekingalpha.com/article/21597

I like this quote:
The reality is Microsoft isn't really a technology company. It's a toll collector. It buys up toll-generating properties and then just collects the tolls on them, just as Spanish and Australian consortia are buying up the Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road. Don't believe it? Take a look at this list of Microsoft innovations; you'll find that most of them actually were built at other companies, and then bought by Microsoft. That's why Vista took five years -- Microsoft actually had to build something instead of just maintaining it. It's just not the company's core competency.
Enjoy!
 
Article talks about Volume Licenses, and suggests that the Volume Licese program is somehow a bad idea. The topic title suggests that these volume licenses reduce Innovation, however volume licenses are simply a different way to buy their software, and has no correlation with Innovation

More Options = Good
Less Options = Bad
 
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