How can it be that software so defiantly unfashionable as " the microsoft office for windows " holds more than 90 percent of the business productivity software market to the tune of more than $ 20 billion in annual sales ?
At a time of contagion and bail-outs , the research also reaffirms the unfashionable view that the basic facts of geography-where people live and work , how they get around-matter as much as financial and fiscal policies .