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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Peaks, valleys and vistas
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>| 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."
> `----
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> 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.
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| 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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