So spending $44 billion on Yahoo in early 2008 will not stop the investing spree. Nor should it. Steve Ballmer, the top Microsoft guy, promised to continued pumping money into eight areas: 1) Windows on new PCs; 2) corporate desktops; 3) server units; 4) small/midsize business (SMB) and consumer markets; 5) online advertising; 6)Xbox; 7)Windows Mobile; and 8) other opportunities including Zune and Surface computing devices. Ballmer said each area could return $750 million or more in real dollars over the next three years. Microsoft doubled its revenue over the last five years. Seems as if Ballmer is making no bones that he intends to keep up the high pace of growth by buying not just technologies, but marketshare as needed.
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Wall to Wall Windows has been the bane of the IT industry, meaning higher costs, lower reliability and horrible security. And we're supposed to be excited about Ballmer and Bill spending more of their cash? Really, how much worse off can we be?
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