Professor Elam

Clearly MSFT did not plan on a deflationary collapse in the economy much less the tech economy.

And so they want to continue Neiman Marcus pricing in a Wal Mart tech world. As the article notes, the computer nanufacturers are making less than MSFT on each machnine. Yet again Balmer promises this will be the best windows yet followng the promises of Windows 95,97,03, 2007, VISTA, hey I am losing count. No doubt the last Yugo was better than the first I say…

The article goes on to say that  "Our customers tell us that they want mobile, small-notebook PCs to go beyond basic Internet activities and deliver premium capabilities [so they can] play games, view pictures, and watch videos," says Brad Brooks, Microsoft corporate vice-president for Windows consumer product marketing.  Translation the customers that switched to other operating systems or Macs are not coming back and they are tired of our software crashing and they will pay for it, gee shoudl we respond?  This is precisely what managerial accounting is all about. Where is the customer value chain?

Meanwhile Google offers an Android alternative morphing from a cell phone chip. The beginning of the end for MSFT?  We can only hope.

A student asked for more tech posts, okay here we are but frankly I get that Chinese dinner feeling,

for me the lively debate of the AMD versus INTC chip is not quite the same as measuring the visceral feel of the mid engine boxster versus the mid motor placement of the 370Z…..