[pburgh01]

Yea like the Zune was going to kill the Ipod, Windows Vista would stem Apple's increasing marketshare, this new Windows Phone OS was going to dominate the market and is expected to flop spectacularly , despite 10’s of million in advertising. I know it's cool to bash MS, so I won't. They do some things fairly well, like their SQL Server and Windows 7 is a good OS, but these forays into “Ego” ventures that Balmer and company embark in is foolish. Ego as in they see a successful product and get obsessed with destroying that competitor, ala Japan in the 1980’s with their cars. The spend gobs of money on badly engineered products for no other reason than to put the market leader out of business, not to make a superior product. It worked in software, Oracle is a dinosaur with a cult following but a shrinking marketshare , Sun is going away, Internet Explorer destroyed Netscape. But with exception of the XBOX360, Microsoft has failed spectacularly when going into hardware\software ventures.

[dayglored]

> this new Windows Phone OS was going to dominate the market and is expected to flop spectacularly , despite 10’s of million in advertising

You dropped a zero:

...despite 100’s of million in advertising

[SeeSac]

Windows Vista would stem Apple's increasing marketshare

Apple's sales are up 2% year over year (3rd quarter). And that is with total market sales increasing. They may be peaking.

[SunkenCiv]

well put, although the “spend gobs of money on badly engineered products for no other reason than to put the market leader out of business” is part of the MS mission statement. ;’)