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MS Dying slowly?

I won't say too much, however this article is very well written by a reporter with a lot of runs on the board for IT.  He is not "MS Bashing" however he does have some interesting insights.

I will temp you with a snippet from the intro to his artical which I think is right on the money:

"One of the tools I'm best known for is Folding Table Theory of Start-Ups. It says that when you walk into a new entrepreneurial company and you see a nice lobby and expensive office furniture, that company has its priorities screwed up — either it is more interested in comfort than success or it is over-capitalized and lazy — and it will never make it.

By comparison, when you see the start-up team working at folding tables or old army surplus desks, you know that it is properly focused both on getting the job done and financial discipline — and has a good chance of being a winner. That's what I saw at the beginning of eBay (and Siebel, Tivo, Electronic Arts, Atari and a host of other great companies) and it's telling that Jeff Skoll kept that table near him during his entire tenure at the company."

This man has been crontrian and right before - worth reading.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SiliconInsider/story?id=88655&page=1

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