Microsoft doesn’t miss an opportunity to poor-mouth the economy these days, and I’m beginning to think that this posture isn’t a way of making excuses for lackluster performance, but actually a way of driving business.
Today Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft’s key server and tools division, and a member of the inner circle that includes Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, told Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts during a technology conference that, in contrast to previous economic recoveries, “we’re not expecting to see massive growth coming out of this [recession].”
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