beautifumacation

ok, so I guess the site is working now, except it's not. Because Microsoft blows donkeys on weekend trips to south of the border... it's true, I'm surprised you didn't know that. Anyways, so IE won't load the page right, so use Mozilla. You honestly should be using it anyways because it's vastly better than IE. Any small setup steps you may have to take (probably won't) over IE are good for computer literacy.

I think Microsoft has reached a crossroad per se, where they either need to scale down and spin off or reinvent the big business. As it currently stands I think they're approaching a critical mass. They have the resources and ability to produce really significant and competitive product, for example C# and the .Net framework. However they are becoming symptomatic of a large eye that casts it's gaze too wide. Way too many of their products are lagging both in a technology aspect and in a fit&polish aspect. Case in point: google is spanking msn search, firefox is spanking IE, windows media heavily lacks in the fit&polish section, etc. The whole thing reeks of the old big tech companies who floundered at the end of last decade. So, microsoft now has a choice of floundering like novell, Dec, packardbell, etc or reinvent and rejuvenate a la TI and IBM.


- Wen Rawks