Re: [ga] Microsoft Asks Fed For Bailout

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff - I suspect this is an April fools joke by infoworld.

regards
joe

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Jeffrey A. Williams
<jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> All,
>
>  As I live and breath, I never thought that I would see this!
> My how the mighty have fallen...  But I say, let them fail or
> shape up and cut costs, especially executive salaries and
> sell some of their Patents and warehoused Domain Names
> to generate cash.  Maybe Mr. Balmer could get a significant
> hair cut as well.
>
> See: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/04/01/2222227
> Microsoft requested on Tuesday some
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/04/01/13NF-microsoft-April-Fools_1.html
>
> $20 billion in bailout funds from the federal government, claiming
> that as the company controls an overwhelming share of the OS market,
> it is too big to fail.  Low adoption rates for Vista, the ensuing ad
> campaign
> trying to convince people that they really do like Vista, and the
> increased
> need for development resources to rush Windows 7 to market to make
> people forget about Vista have necessitated the bailout, the company
> said.
> "We want to make it absolutely clear that this is not a crisis of
> mismanagement,"
> said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in a prepared statement. "This is
> simply
> a crisis of dollars a crisis of not having enough dollars coming our
> way."
>
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