Microsoft desperate.

[edison]

MS made $5.2bn profit in the last quarter. Even with the apparent long term decline in PC purchases, they will be able to milk the cash cows of Office and Windows Server etc for a good while yet.

Heck, even Windows phones are starting to become popular - apparently almost 10% of all smartphone sales in Europe at the moment!

[minestrone]

Attacking your competition sounds like your company is in financial trouble.

XBOX one comes out tonight.

They ain't going to be in any financial problems.

[AtW]

There adverts just make me feel paranoid about using anything that is from a US company or uses US servers, and it doesn't help that things like this are in the news.

Do you have something to hide?

[SueEllen]

I don't think they are desperate, profits are up and they are heading into 2014 very, very strongly.

Attacking your competition sounds like your company is in financial trouble.

Probably works different with Americans but they need to realise that not everyone in the world who speaks English as a first language or even very good other language has the same psyche as an American.

I think it is a valid point and one they have every right putting across as I am sure most people using gmail don't have a clue this is going on.

This issue comes up about every two years with Google products.

Of course they have failed to tie up the term with the pig latin adverts on TV which is a fail.

There adverts just make me feel paranoid about using anything that is from a US company or uses US servers, and it doesn't help that things like this are in the news.

[minestrone]

I don't think they are desperate, profits are up and they are heading into 2014 very, very strongly.

I think it is a valid point and one they have every right putting across as I am sure most people using gmail don't have a clue this is going on.

Of course they have failed to tie up the term with the pig latin adverts on TV which is a fail.

[SueEllen]

Google. MS. Pot. Kettle.

One word - desperate.

When a organisation is losing market share they go on the attack.

[greenlake]

Don't Get Scroogled! - Scroogled

If you can't beat them, smear them.

And now, you can even buy the t-shirt.

Scroogled - Microsoft Store U.S.

[AtW]

Pay for software? that is an outrage!

Paying for software is fine.

What's not fine is when there is a microblade server hardware that costs $500, but server OS for it is at least $800 (MSFT Server Standard). There isn't even a question whether to use Microsoft software on those and for large boxes they are now switching to per core pricing (SQL Server, Exchange etc).

All that is pushing their long time customers (used Microsoft since MS DOS 3.0 days) to Linux/Java.

[CheeseSlice]

Ok, being scroggled is not nice.

But have they considered how people feel when having to pay them for CALs and crazy per-core licenses?

Pay for software? that is an outrage!

[petergriffin]

Google. MS. Pot. Kettle.

[AtW]

Ok, being scroggled is not nice.

But have they considered how people feel when having to pay them for CALs and crazy per-core licenses?

[vetran]

It's a bit much when they try and tie your windows 8 login to a M$ account at every opportunity.

that is to improve your user experience not make money, you will never make a good drone!

[doodab]

It's a bit much when they try and tie your windows 8 login to a M$ account at every opportunity.

[russell]

Don't Get Scroogled! - Scroogled

If you can't beat them, smear them.