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Vista flaw could haunt Microsoft

by Obi-Akpere | December 15, 2006 at 11:41 am | 238 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

If you followed Microsoft in the 1990s, you knew it
as a company that deftly moved from strength to strength, leveraging
its dominance in one area of software to command other parts of the
tech business.

That company's long gone, folks.

The latest evidence that Microsoft (Charts) has lost its Midas Touch? Its bid for a bigger piece of the $14 billion database business, a sector now ruled by Oracle (Charts) and IBM (Charts).
Until now, Microsoft has been doing what it does best to attract
corporate customers: It has tied its SQL Server database management
software to programs running on Windows desktops