as an IP lawyer frequently adverse to MSFT, i can assure you that it is not dead quite yet. on the essay itself, as thoughtful as we have come to expect, I suppose the relevant question is what will the next "black swan" event be?
Microsoft is Dead
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#422The number one caboose to for companies to switch platform from Windows to Linux is the that the employees are reluctant to the switch. They had a hard time just to get adopted to computers in general (Windows) from type writes and are terrified for a change. When the people from the 1960 retire there's nothing to hold companies back from switching desktop platforms.
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#423You missed the point about MS's release of .Net.Aimed to reach over and better Java style. MS sales even targetted co's using java for development offering $'s to switch to .Net. What was left out in their design was the sheer easiness to reconvert .net back to source code using off the web debuggers. My point being, ofcourse they would die. If you can't give ulitimate development tools, how can you expect them to stay ahead of teh pack.
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#424You missed the point about MS's release of .Net.Aimed to reach over and better Java style. MS sales even targetted co's using java for development offering $'s to switch to .Net. What was left out in their design was the sheer easiness to reconvert .net back to source code using off the web debuggers. My point being, ofcourse they would die. If you can't give ulitimate development tools, how can you expect them to stay ahead of teh pack.
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#425You missed the point about MS's release of .Net.Aimed to reach over and better Java style. MS sales even targetted co's using java for development offering $'s to switch to .Net. What was left out in their design was the sheer easiness to reconvert .net back to source code using off the web debuggers. My point being, ofcourse they would die. If you can't give ulitimate development tools, how can you expect them to stay ahead of teh pack.
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#426I am very sorry, but the language of this article is almost exactly same as used by communist propaganda: everything is good, evil capitalism is (as the historical materialism had pre-determined) de-facto dead, just a couple of years and a perfect society will come ... are all the penguins really so mad about the different preferences?
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#427Microsoft 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.
Or see http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/ . The point is, if you're not talking about games, Microsoft is basically irrelevant to the way that the majority of people use computers.
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#428Microsoft is dead. Right. That's why they still have abut 95% markeet share in the desktop OS market. Remember that you need to have an OS to connect to broadband and that means any growth for Google, is pretty much automatic growth for Microsoft. if another desktop OS actually gets more than a 10% market share then you might be right.
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#429So you think that Microsoft is dead, because they have lost the leader role in invention. It's true, they have no popular initiation. But Microsoft used to steal the new technologies: they did it in Windows, in which they used the user interface inveted by Apple. Microsoft is following the technical engineering nowadays too, look at the view of XP and Vista. Microsoft realised, that an OS must be not only useful, but beautiful, too, and they followed this trend. And they have mixed it with the common Windows experience, which means Windows will be a real alternative for years. Maybe they don't have the leadership, but after some years Microsoft will plead the traditions in the computer world. Don't forget that there are millions of grandmas, and their claims are real claims from a new technology. Microsoft seems dead from a technology-invertory view, but Microsoft's spirit is still alive, and Microsoft has written informatical history. Even if they are dead, even if they aren't the future, Microsoft's influence is not unimportant for the future.
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#430Hmm... interesting story... the question, in my mind, is when will the rest of the world learn the good news?? Especially when travelling in places like South America, everywhere you go, everyone runs windows computers... They're just easier to handle, and manage, when the software comes pre-installed. That people haven't yet had the opportunity to learn and use linux, or that there isn't an open OSX for them to be able to use is a crying shame... And until they have access to the software, they won't be able to enjoy these benefits, that we know to be the case, of Microsofts legacy starting to be buried...