Re: [ga] Microsoft Asks Fed For Bailout

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. Joe, and all,

  Yes I know.  I was just passing it along.  I suppose I
should have been more clear about that...  >:)

Joe Baptista wrote:

> 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."
>
>      Regards,
>
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Regards,

Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 284k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln
"YES WE CAN!"  Barack ( Berry ) Obama

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS.
div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail
jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
My Phone: 214-244-4827