Your claim that no-one uses Windows anymore is a bit, eh, out of touch with reality. Even though many web designers and web programmers use Macs, the majority of businesses still run Windows on their desktops.
Microsoft is Dead
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Re: Microsoft is Dead
#402I blogged on the subject at http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/microsoft_is_not_dead_it_just_has_a_flu.htm
Yakov Fain
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#403Hey Paul,
Just because Microsoft sucks right now in Internet stuff and is not that flashy like the cute AJAX startups (who are dying like flies), doesn't means too much, we need to see how the winds are blowing:
a. You can't build an Office with AJAX. AJAX is too hard to program, relative to the functionality you get out of it. Heh, I am sure I will get a lot of smiles for this. The keyword is "relative". Btw, I have been doing AJAX in 2001, and it sucked big time.
To build a WebOffice, you need something much more reliable, faster and powerful than the shitty JavaScript. A development environment with static compile time checking, better control of machine resources, faster. A FLASHy virtual machine for example.
Google Apps (Sheets and Docs) are nothing more than toys, and they are locked in pit. They cannot grow larger than they currently are in an incremental manner.
It is a pity Google did not snatch Macromedia, for lack of vision. Now Microsoft is building their own lightweight virtual machine, for exactly this purpose: deliver large scale apps to the web.
b. .NET binding to the OS (the binding of Windows GUI to .NET 3.0). That's the single most aggresive move I have ever seen from a company. It goes like this: we are a monopolist of the OS market. Should you want to develop for our OS (which you must), you MUST use our developments tools and proprietary languages, which do not work on any other OSes. The monopoly is self-reinforcing, with one more leg added. The plan of the MS new boss is far-fetched (they mentioned 10 years), but it is sound.
The seeds are in place and the wind is blowing Microsoft's way, just give them time to grow.
So, I will start to respect Google's strategy the moment they push for the control of their underlying platform, making that little virtual machine.
Regards, Rares
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#404Earlier quoted context omitted.
"In summary, my problem is not with capitalism, and I am not a socialist. I merely fear that the inevitable end of capitalism is the type of corporate society that has been steadily evolving in the U.S. and elsewhere, one in which paper and numbers are more important than people." You contradict yourself. Obviously you have a problem with capitalism because you beleive people should be forced at gunpoint to live the…
I'd like to say something that u don't have to answer. In fact, I wouldn't like u to answer for it's pointless to argue with you, as far as I can see. But I'm just wondering: Are you as afraid of communism as to act as someone like Hitler would do? Your way of refusing to friendly discuss arguments is as intolerant and shortsighted as Hitler or Stalin would do. So, as you call yourself an anti-communist you just let…
Thank you. I was afraid I was in the minority here in thinking that his posts were a little off...
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#405Another way Microsoft has shot its self in the foot began in 2000 with the release of Office 2000, then a year later Office XP then within 18 months Office 2003. Were they trying to milk the cow dry. That is why corporations are in a mass exodus from Office to other alternatives.
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#406I personally have had enough of Microsoft's business practices, DRM, security, constant updates and hype, and have been reviewing alternative operating systems. I have settled (with full knowledge of the Novell Microsoft "agreement") on openSUSE 10.2 for the time being and so far have been very satisifed with the results. The Vista driven "leave all your obsolete hardware at the end of the driveway for garbage pickup" mentality doesn't wash. SUSE is running just fine on an old 1Ghz Athlon. I urge others to try some sort of current Linux distro (try more than one) and experience it firsthand.
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#4074/24/07 sundays BARRONS stated MS poor sales with new os offering (VISTA) walmarts lcd tv price cut cause big shake up in tech sales. LISTS retail closings etc.
got vista at closing comp usa 20% off awhile back... its linux with windows name (protected mode) works fine!
MS is now to busy with the MS FOUNDATION and that BURKSHIRE guy from OMAHA to care about WINDOWS or computers. I'll bet VISTA is the end of it!
THEY HAVE OTHER FISH TO FRY......
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#408This is a poor article from Paul. I don't know why does he engage in this sort of stuff. Anyway Microsoft is maybe "off the spot" today in some popular stuff, but being "off the spot" is hardly equal to being dead. Microsoft acumulated so much value in their products/services today (built by them and assisted by the whole industry) that it would be crazy to think they are dead. And don't forget that lots of those smart emerging engineers from India, Pakistan etc. end up at Microsoft, soon they will produce interesting results. They have the desktop and without the desktop no browser can run, and they have a large part of the server too and server is where things really matters today, plus development tools & environments. Time will tell...
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#409Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a very sick and twisted view of the world-- and it is from Karl Marx. The reality is, you make money when you bring happiness to people. You make people happy and they want to give you money they want to buy more of your products because they want to keep being made happy again, or made even more happy. Thus, the happier you make your customers the more money you make. Further, making people happy, and making…
You seem to labor under a few misconceptions. Sure, you CAN make money while bringing happiness to the people. As long as it doesn't touch you bottom line, that is. There is a landmark legal case from 1916 (Dodge vs Ford), that's now codified in most countries, that's illustrative of corporations priorities. Ford (the man) wanted to use some of his company's huge profits to do good and make the customers happy. He pa…
Oh noes! I have to watch commercials! The pain, the pain.
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#410I recall Mr. Gates in the mid to late 90's talking about the impact the Internet was going to have on their business model and their efforts to be at the forefront of that. The problem was, and always has been, that they couldn't and can't change their entrenched business model for a new one. Typical to the Innovator's Dilemna, an entrenched organization cannot easily remodel its' business practices to meet new challenges. IBM has, to some extent, but the premier example is, obviously, Apple. In the cases of IBM and Apple they had to undergo an almost complete demise of the company to fight their way to a new approach. I'm willing to bet that a similar situation will come about in the case of Microsoft. The only question is will they (like the others I mentioned) be able to recover in time or will they be the Wang of this century?