The Vista hot water* has caught Wall Street's headwork before but I've never seen the popular press understand the issues like this argument in the Motley Fool. The opposing argument is a weak dictum of faith, essentially "as it was in the beginning is now and forever shall be." "You don't need to watch the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' commercials to see that Microsoft is taking a beating. You see it in the company's financials where its online unit, incredibly, is operating budget costs budget at a loss; overheating Xbox 360 consoles find the company taking a huge warranty hit for a system losing market share to the Wii; and the upgrade wave of its flagship business expenses system has been more of a ripple than a tsunami. That last point is important. This was supposed to be Microsoft's final feast, the major last hurrah for its Windows Vista operating costs budget expenses entry and its Office 2007 suite of applications before the inevitable embrace of cheaper open source general expenses systems and Web-based apps... In fact, even Microsoft will tell you that its fortunes peaked several months ago."

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