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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by gdy on Friday August 23, 2013 @02:37PM (#6265449)
What software exactly have been boxed out of their operating system with incompatibilities?
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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by erikpukinskis on Friday August 23, 2013 @02:58PM (#6265596)
Well, I guess I meant to include both Windows and Office in that statement. Samba, WordPerfect, and Netscape are good examples.

Although in the case of Netscape, they just coerced all of the OEMs not to include it.

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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by pjmlp on Saturday August 24, 2013 @02:28AM (#6267879)
However, many like WordPerfect were just doing dumb business decisions that led them out of business.

http://www.wordplace.com/ap/

Microsoft did not have to do much with this type of competition.

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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by scholia on Sunday August 25, 2013 @08:03PM (#6274327)
Netscape also put itself out of business by arrogance and making dumb decisions, plus some very poor programming.
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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by gdy on Saturday August 24, 2013 @01:49PM (#6269261)
Samba hasn't been boxed out to be replaced by Microsoft own software. Do you have any kind of proof for your claim about WordPerfect and Netscape?
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