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April 16, 2008 9:03 PM PDT

The rise and fall of Microsoft's civilization: Caught on video

Posted by Matt Asay
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When Microsoft starts making videos like these, even as a spoof (as CNET discovered), its best years are clearly behind it. I have no great love for Microsoft, but I'm blushing with embarrassment for the company. Even spoofs should be better than this.

Wow. Make it go away!

Matt Asay is general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, and has nearly a decade of operational experience with commercial open source and regularly speaks and publishes on open-source business strategy. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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by The_Decider April 16, 2008 9:56 PM PDT
At least you aren't carrying water for MS by trying to spin it into something that it is definitely not like Mr. Cooper is so desperately trying to do.
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by The_Flying_V April 17, 2008 7:43 AM PDT
The follow up single "Please just give us 6 more months to fix Vista before you migrate back to XP" is expected out any day now.
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Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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