{"id":411,"date":"2014-01-29T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T04:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=411"},"modified":"2014-01-29T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T04:02:23","slug":"remember-when-msft-was-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Remember when MSFT was king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am doing some historical research and came across this quote from the Barron&#8217;s issue dated 2\/16\/98:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With production flowing to countries with cheap labor and consumption moving from cheap, standardized goods to more customized products and services, problem-solvers and strategic thinkers are more valued than ever-and found more often in offices than in labs or on shop floors. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/public\/quotes\/main.html?type=djn&amp;symbol=msft\">Microsoft<\/a>, to cite one example from the study, triumphed over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/public\/quotes\/main.html?type=djn&amp;symbol=aapl\">Apple Computer<\/a>\u00a0not because of technological prowess but because of superior marketing and competitive maneuvering.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A good example of how who is on top today may not be there tomorrow and the reverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am doing some historical research and came across this quote from the Barron&#8217;s issue dated 2\/16\/98: &#8220;With production flowing to countries with cheap labor and consumption moving from cheap, standardized goods to more customized products and services, problem-solvers and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=411\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}