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In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Microsoft’s Profit Comes From
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Microsoft is the largest, most profitable software company in the world.
And its profits are still being generated by the same engines that have driven Microsoft for years: Office, Windows, and its server division.
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Interview with a scammer
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Scam-Detective: How did you get involved in scamming people on the Internet?
John: I come from a poor family in Lagos, Nigeria. We did not have very much money and good jobs are hard to find. I was approached to work for a gang master when I was 15, because I had done well in school with my English, and was getting to be good with computers. The gang master was offering good money and I took the chance to help my family.
Scam-Detective: Do you think that your teachers at school had reported your talents to the gang master?
John: Yes. There is a lot of corruption in Nigeria and the gangs pay well to find people with good English skills to work the scams.
Scam-Detective: What kind of scams were you involved with?
John: Mainly advance fee fraud where we would tell people that someone has died and left millions in a bank or safety deposit box and that we needed help to get it out of the country. That is the most successful type of scam, but I also did Phishing to try and get user names and passwords for peoples online bank accounts.
Part two and Part three.
It’s a big pointy green thing that flies around in the sky, but that’s not important right now.
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An airline has decorated one of its planes as an idiot’s guide to aviation — labelling things like the engines and where the pilot sits.
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I think I want AdBlock for my Augmented Reality…
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.
This is the sort of future vision that rational people run screaming from, and marketing departments soil their pants in glee over.
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I don’t like these stacked charts. It’s very easy to look at this and think that Office revenue suddenly collapsed after Sept 09, because the upward arm looks narrow in its shortest section… but if you measure vertically, it’s actually quite wide. Note that the top of the Office revenue bar is even cut off at the right end.
Of course the interesting bit is how Windows revenue has spiked with the release of Win 7. Wow. It’ll be interesting to see how much of that is pent up demand from people avoiding Vista.
Either misleading headlines or badly constructed graph i.e. in the omission of the true data. It is rumoured that the true profit for MS comes from the ownership of shares in phone companies – as in majority stakeholders. The same phone companies where MS users spend the majority of their time and the nearly all of their money.
(http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/12/why_i_dont_use_windows.html)