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Maximilien wrote: Apart from keyboard and mouse, Microsoft is a software company.
xbox?
Skype?
Bing?
none of those are software (two are services, one is a device).
that's what Ballmer says MS is going to become. less emphasis on selling software, more emphasis on selling services and devices.
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Frank W. Wu wrote: So MSFT is no longer a software company
What utter nonsense.
Every company is a software company.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Some are just more humiliated by the fact than others.
Software Zen: delete this;
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No if that ever happened I expect I would still be developing Qt based applications for medical imaging research.
John
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Frank W. Wu wrote: So MSFT is no longer a software company.
So what OS is all those services going to be running on?
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My head-hunter just called and told me I have an interview near Seattle in a couple of weeks.
He told me to buy a nice suit and practice my chair throwing and aerobic stamina.
I'd rather be phishing!
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And don't forget to buy a nice and sturdy helmet.
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When are you proposing to release Win 11? What hardware will it run on?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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In other vague, inane and utterly pointless narcissistic news:
I've managed to get food poisoning from a week old pastry. What can I say? I was hungry and unlucky!
My wife has relented on the purchase of new highly impractical car she can't drive (variegate punishments to be enforced later), however I forgot I suffer from a disease known as Imacheapbastarditis, a terrible affliction which leaves one with a hatred of spending money and healthy investments. The usual treatment is Wifox, which can drain a bank account faster than Mr. W.E.Coyote is pounded in to the ground by a falling anvil. Obviously in this case it's not effective.
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If you cannot eat week old food without getting sick I have to wonder if you're in the right field.
A programmer's gut should be second only to a buzzard's gut.
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I am not eating at your place.
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Food old enough can often be drunk.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: FoodFools old enough can often be drunk.
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*looks up from under the desk*
Hey look, I found some pizza!
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"Found a peanut!"
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Only a week old? That is quite unlucky unless you have a weak gut.
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Or it was a meat-pie type pastry...in the sun...for a week... 
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... with the USCIS in 3 weeks where I get to demonstrate a superior understanding of US history than my American born wife (sic). If they like me I guess I'll have to change my name to MidwestYankeeLimey.
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Given the thread directly below this one, I thought I was going to have to be nice to you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Good luck and remember that the trick questions are about football and rounders.
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If you've watched lots of films you should be OK.
The Enigma machine was captured by the Americans during WWII, which was a war fought solely between America and Germany for example.
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I could have sworn it was the Polish ... thanks for setting me right!
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PB 369,783 wrote: a war fought solely between America and Germany the forces of Evil and Terr'ism for example
FTFY - most Americans couldn't find Germany on a map.
Of Germany. 
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That's why they came in late, twice! Somebody had to show them the way and give directions.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Little known fact: when Patton arrived in Casablanca he was actually supposed to invade Hamburg 
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