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...Redmond-based software giant has responded by deciding to stop offering Vista’s popular predecessor, Windows Experience (XP), for sale in retail and other channels. This move is not only a poorly concealed ploy to boost flagging Vista sales, but is also a policy that will hurt Microsoft in the long...
...Furthermore, although Vista sales may increase in the short term as a result of this decision, it may also ultimately hurt Microsoft’s market share. The firm’s few competitors in the operating system market, most notably Apple’s OS X, have been gaining ground in recent months . The scrappy Cupertino-based consumer electronics firm has seen a substantial increase in laptop sales, and has even released a series of advertisements poking fun at Vista’s more intrusive features, such as User Account Control . In these ways, Vista’s shortcomings...
...Finally, Microsoft’s aggressive marketing of Vista already has and will continue to hurt the PC industry as a whole. In late 2006, Microsoft began pushing computer manufacturers to certify various products as “Vista Ready” or “Vista Capable,” when in fact many of these machines were only capable of running a crippled version of the software, which The New York Times deemed to be “too stripped down to be worthwhile.” As a result, the company recently faced a class-action lawsuit...
...letter of resignation has all the contrite grace of a Molotov cocktail hurled into one’s former workplace. She writes, “I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself…The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won’t let that happen.” So, having issued her blunt rhetorical assault, the closest thing Clinton has to a historical precedent can only bring herself to apologize for a political misstep—not a personal prejudice revealed...
...with thecentral character. He doesn’t feel theneed to empathize with her. He playsaround with the facts of her life withoutever assembling them into a character.His attitude can be embarrassingly reductive,as when Haruko describes theEmperor’s reaction to her breakdown:“The hurt frustration he showed on realizinghis insufficiency—the woundedperplexity of a deeply practical manin the face of irregularities of a femalenature (that apparently sound mechanismwhich nonetheless may decide, forwhatever reason, simply to cease functioning)—could not contain itself.”If all of Haruko?...