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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (11642)	3/26/2006 5:20:31 AM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 19790

USAs main problem is the foreign debt. European countries, that have had less foreign debt per capita, have been hit extremely hard trying to repay the debt. Working more, getting less money, less startups. I'm amazed that USA believes to be able to produce your way out of this. But anyway, as long as scientists and information professionals in China and India are mostly working for rich countries, we need less of these. It's that simple. If you want to replace the jobs, replace them with something else. In my opinion, there are other kinds of jobs out there, that you cannot outsource and are well paying. People just have to find out.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (11642)	3/26/2006 10:02:21 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 19790

If you can make your R&D work globally like that, good for you. Most cannot. They pay lip service to their success with this model, but anybody can see otherwise. You mentioned it on another thread. The key is our great University system. Until they can produce Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, Berserkeley, etc...IP is born in the USA. The big fear I have is the assault from the religious right on our University system. This is our greatest strength and the right wants to tear it down. Go figure.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (11642)	3/26/2006 8:54:44 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 19790

Great read on msft. Its worth reading the entire article but the key paragraph imho is this. (I find it amazing that they figured out they couldn't manage Vista until summer 2004- which means Vista as DOA before the goog ipo even as everyone was afraid msft would squash GOOG in fall,04) Vista was also held up because the project was restarted in the summer of 2004. By then, it became clear to Mr. Allchin and others inside Microsoft that the way they were trying to build the new version of Windows, then called Longhorn, would not work. Two years' worth of work was scrapped, and some planned features were dropped, like an intelligent data storage system called WinFS. The new work, Microsoft decided, would take a new approach. Vista was built more in small modules that then fit together like Lego blocks, making development and testing easier to manage. "They did the right thing in deciding that the Longhorn code was a tangled, hopeless mess, and starting over," said Mr. Cusumano of M.I.T. "But Vista is still an enormous, complex structure." nytimes.com