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...during the 1990s, growing an average 36% annually, maintaining that altitude is nearly impossible. So Microsoft's growth rate is now no larger than that of the PC industry as a whole. Its stock price has stalled at 1998 levels. A new version of its flagship Windows product, once expected as early as 2003, may ship in 2006, lacking many of the cool new features Microsoft had hoped to include. By then, Windows is expected to be squaring off against its toughest challenge to date, from Linux, a rival operating system that literally gives itself away...
Like a kid with a $100 bill in a penny-candy store, Microsoft has been trying too many things at once, critics have long charged. To keep the company focused, Ballmer sliced it into seven supposedly equal and semiautonomous product groups, each with its own CFO. Two of those groups--Windows and Office--account for 62% of revenue and the lion's share of profits. The others deal with mobile devices, business services, entertainment, the Internet (MSN) and server software. Those last two are marginally profitable; the others are optimistic bets on the future. Says Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox...
Sherwood identifies Cabaret, which he worked on during the fall of his junior year, as his favorite production experience. “For me, the process of creating art and the friendships developed during the collaborative process are just as important as the end product,” he says. “All three of those things were particularly rewarding during Cabaret...
...Critics of the administration see the isolation and vulnerability of the American mission in Iraq right now as a product of policy choices personified by Rumsfeld: the aggressive unilateralism that has left the U.S. unable to attract significant allied participation; comments questioning the application of the Geneva Convention in instances where the enemies of the U.S. are deemed terrorists; and, most importantly, a capital-intensive war plan that has left America short of troops to pacify Iraq. Just as the plaudits poured in for the Defense Secretary following the lightning victory for the U.S. forces that captured Baghdad in three...
...loop. If, indeed, the abuses turn out to have been the work of a handful of low-ranking individuals acting outside of orders, Rumsfeld's job is safe. But if it emerges in the coming weeks that the abuses were a systemic failure of oversight - or even the product of orders from Military Intelligence to the jailers to create an "enabling" environment at the prison that would facilitate the extraction of information from detainees under interrogation, as some of the questions Friday suggested - the defense secretary may take the hit from any backlash...