Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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| A flurry of stories about Microsoft recently got me thinking
| today about computer history. First was the story yesterday in the Wall
| Street Journal about whether it's Time to Dump Your Desktop? Another was
| the recent revelation that Microsoft is developing its own Zune music
| player and is creating yet another music store to compete with iTunes.
| Another was about how Google's new spreadsheet service could ultimately
| dent Microsoft's Office business. And then there was this compendium of
| articles about Bill Gates stepping down and another marketing executive
| leaving. These stories seemed to be saying something, but no one told
| the whole story. And then it hit me.
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| Microsoft is about to lose the software business the same way that IBM lost
| the PC business in the 1980s.
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http://software.seekingalpha.com/article/14310
What I've found most interesting recently was rewatching episodes of "Yes,
Prime Minister" (the comedy from the BBC) originally broadcast in 1986 (20
years ago) - the second episode was about Jim Hacker's plan to not replace
Polaris with Trident[1], cancelling a £15B order with the Americans, who
would not be too happy about it; when asked about who ran the UK: parliament
or the American President, Sir Humphrey said that he was in the minority -
he still considered it to be the British Government.
I wonder how accurate "Yes, Prime Minister"[2] was, and still is...
[1] Quite appropriate as Trident seems to have reached its life end and
replacements were being considered recently.
[2] I know it was only a sitcom, but some (all) of the things done were made
up, weren't they?
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