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• Report this Comment On June 01, 2009, at 12:55 AM, kellogg9 wrote:

  Microsoft, like Timex, takes a licken and keeps on ticken but there comes a time when you need to spend some of those billion dollar R&D on something more than hype. Microsoft had already released two other iterations of their supposed "google killer" search engine in years past and to this day, even just now, there search engine is worthless. What exactly is the billions used for.

  Kelly

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• Report this Comment On June 01, 2009, at 11:40 AM, mpendragon wrote:

  Microsoft's problem is that after decades of work they finally made a product that was more than good enough for most people. Windows XP was far less apt to crash than it's predecessors and can still perform all of the kinds of tasks most users need nearly 8 years after its launch. Their office suite also hit the good enough mark around then, if not earlier. The PC is an expensive gaming platform compared to consoles and the graphics quality of consoles is close enough to a quality PC that most people don't care.

  All they really have to offer the public now is improved security, some UI tweaks, eye candy, and the threat of ending support at the steep cost of significantly higher system requirements. That's a hard sell.

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