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| Authored by: odysseus on Thursday, November 15 2012 @ 07:52 AM EST |
Just read the article and a few others, I now have another site and author to
add to the ignore list along with Orlowski and The Register: Opinionated,
click-trolling, loose with the facts, and outright wrong.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: nsomos on Thursday, November 15 2012 @ 09:53 AM EST |
No wonder that MS are suing companies and doing all they
can to get a slice of others profits without actually
providing anything better than the promises a protection
racket makes to its 'customers'. Extorting money from
others is probably the only thing that MS is really
good at.
The end of MS cannot come a moment too soon, but I don't
expect it to be quick enough. MS still has enough cash
that they can make lots more mistakes before the results
are obviously fatal. In the meantime MS causes much
misery to both people and companies.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 15 2012 @ 10:20 AM EST |
I wrote a prediction that Microsoft would be filing for Chapter 11 in five
years, back in the Fall of 2009.
We've got two years to go, and Microsoft is flailing away like a drunken,
blindfolded Cossack dancer, and with about as much success. I didn't
foresee what they currently are doing, it was just that if you read their SEC
reports you see an unstable company, with too much of the profits coming
from only one place, and therefore open to disruption.
Plus, they've never done well dealing with consumers, and the market is
now heavily consumer biased.
There are other factors. Lot of Microsoft's cash reserves are kept outside of
the United States (which is why they could afford to overpay for Skype).
Most of their employees and costs are in the United States. The company
is run by a sales rep - this works for B2B, but not for consumer sales. The
corporate setup is such that good new ideas are unable to bubble up to the
top, in effect it has become a worse beauracracy than IBM was.
So yes. I give them two years.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: cassini2006 on Thursday, November 15 2012 @ 11:20 AM EST |
Charlie has an accurate habit of spotting the inflection points. The points
in the market where it fundamentally changes. The problem with calling market
directions at inflection points, is that it is hard to be 100% correct.
People, like a herd of cattle, can move all at once. Every once in a while,
people become alert, and simultaneously make the same decision. Then all at
once, they flood the stores, buy the hot product, and set an industries
direction for the next 5 years.
This is one of those points for the computer
industry. I'm not quite sure what will happen next, however I know that this
is a moment of change.
I remember the dark times of Apple, and the dark
years for IBM. Does Microsoft have the great leader that can set the
direction of the market? Does Apple? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 15 2012 @ 11:22 AM EST |
Read article 3. Yup - Microsoft is still up to it's old leopard spots
behavior.
What's amazing is the OEM's like HP that know MS... yet still
let's them in their shops to see their new development so MS can ... err...
"borrow" the techniques and place into MS' own products.
Seriously HP: MS
did that to IBM with OS2 and you thought you were safe from such "partner"
behavioral patterns?
If the report is true and HP is truly bailing on MS
- it's about time! I guess after 30 years of repetitive behavior HP finally
decided enough was enough.
On a side note: if everyone truly does bail
from ARM - there goes MS' "protected boot" strategy on that platform.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: marcosdumay on Thursday, November 15 2012 @ 08:29 PM EST |
At least, not yet... And at least from no EXTERNAL threat.
About their own executives, those do indeed look like a threat. If you were
talking about them, yes, you have a point.
But their (still alife) partners, clients and community; those still didn't go
away, and there is still time for MS to redeem themselves. Unless, of course,
their executives insist on holding course, then those people will go away.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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