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Re: [News] The Economist Suggests Microsoft is Beyond Its Pinnacle

  • Subject: Re: [News] The Economist Suggests Microsoft is Beyond Its Pinnacle
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:22:11 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <2494208.PmL6WkbLaf@schestowitz.com>
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:483127
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Peaks, valleys and vistas
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The launch of a new version of Microsoft Windows, called Vista, is
>| not quite the event it used to be. Has the software giant reached
>| the pinnacle of its power?
>| 
>| [...]
>| 
>| Some big companies do have the wealth and talent to remain
>| competitive even as their industry lurches from one incarnation
>| to the next--IBM has done it before, moving from hardware to
>| services. Now its old partner probably has to do the same. The
>| primacy of Windows and Office is waning, even if Microsoft's
>| immediate power is not. "Icebergs melt", as one Silicon Valley
>| veteran notes. "But they melt extremely slowly."
> `----
> 
> http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8550569

They do, don't they?  The economist is an excellent magazine, along with
the FT, one of my favourite reads.  There are a lot of people posting in
this group about economic issues who seem to have little real grasp of
them - reading the FT every day and the Economist every week would do
them the world of good.

Microsoft will not disappear, I think, but they will need to replace all
of their senior management, probably a lot of their middle management,
and they will need to stop messing around with things like operating
systems where they're trying to compete with free.

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods.
		-- Bernard Levin

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