[dba-Tech] Microsoft

The gamblers fallacy.   Some people never learn.

With ANY finite amount of money, the odds are against them when using that strategy.
Eventually, they WILL lose it all.

-- 
Stuart

On 10 May 2013 at 14:33, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> Hi Hans:
> 
> That is quite probably true but with deep pockets comes options and they are
> absolutely committed to their current course. It is either win or lose it
> all. Just double-down and roll that dice again...with enough money the odds
> are in their favour...they have to hit it right, eventually. 
> 
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian
> Andersen
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 1:09 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Microsoft
> 
> This feels more like a sign of desperation rather than a sound business
> investment.
> 
> - Hans
> 
> 
> On 2013-05-10, at 11:50 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Even with all the body blows, that Microsoft has endured recently, they
> are
> > hardly throwing in the towel. 
> > 
> > Microsoft may be bent but they are not broken or should I say broke. In
> > order to make their Windows8 platform more appealing they may just buy
> Nook
> > media and build that feature into their OS. (Getting exclusive rights to
> > this new feature may just cost a cool billion...not really expensive but a
> > billion here and a billion there and pretty soon it starts adding up to
> real
> > money.)
> > 
> >
> http://paidcontent.org/2013/05/09/in-nook-microsoft-sees-a-chance-to-compete
> > -against-amazon-and-apple/
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
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