I agree that Microsoft is dead. The biggest reason is simply that Bill Gates is leaving.
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#392and reincarnation is just round the corner, perhaps.
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#393As a younger (20's) half reader who also happens to be a pro photographer, I think the hyperbole of "all apps on the web!" is silly. Tell me, when will my upload speed equal the speed of my 10,000 RPM Raptor HD's? My Core 2 Duo? Man, I can't sit around and wait while 75MB RAW files are uploaded to someone else's computer (that's all a server is, after all). This is the day and age of the personal super computer. Outs…
Yes I agree with you on that. Only I am 18 and I am a game developer/photoshop artist. Also I have tried alot of these online sites that have programs like phtoshop or office. They are not anywhere near as good as the ones you install on your pc or mac or whatever you use.
Also I have tried out a mac and I didn't like it as much as I like my windows pc. Manily for the price and the fact that you can't upgrade it yourself.
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#394This is the dumbest article I have read in a long time.
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#395Microsoft died before the mainframe. There's irony for you.
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#396i agree with 50 yo Bob G.apple is superficial too. only when they go GPL will they leverage "web x.0".MS is old news.
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#397Microsoft will linger on as long as games are based on DX. They might be able to do some additional damage with their browser monopoly. But I agree: fresh air is blowing in the door, and programmers are getting a feeling that it at last is spring-time.
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#398Microsoft will linger on as long as games are based on DX. They might be able to do some additional damage with their browser monopoly. But I agree: fresh air is blowing in the door, and programmers are getting a feeling that it at last is spring-time.
Wow, OK many of these comments are kind of like disrespectful to Paul Graham because they kind of indicate that many people have learned absolutely nothing from him. Wow. That's really depressing.
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#399I think one of the major contributors for the change of impressions of MSFT between older techies and younger is Linux. For us older guys, MSFT ate everyone alive during it's hayday - Borland, Novell, Quarterdeck, GEM, Amiga, and so on. It seemed that no one - not even IBM - could compete with MSFT and survive.
Linux thrives and it's the younger generation of techies that have carried on this battle in an unstoppable fashion. Curiousity + frustration + dogged determinism has led to a people powered movement that could not be crushed by money, FUD or other corporate methods. Democracy and anarchism is the antidote to corporatism and fascism.