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To: general_re
Microsoft, on the other hand, it the dominant software company worldwide.

But as a percentage of the installed base of platforms, it's losing that position at a rapid rate.

40 posted on 02/12/2005 9:19:45 AM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

That's what various advocates would have you believe. Mostly, what those are based on are a 1 or 2% slide over the last three years - you're supposed to assume that trend will last forever and extrapolate accordingly. The same sort of calculations that global warming wackos use to "predict" average daily temperatures of 240 degrees fifty years from now, IOW.


44 posted on 02/12/2005 9:29:43 AM PST by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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