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[News] Prediction: Few Years for Microsoft to Live as Large Company

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Microsoft

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| Here is the prediction I'm hesitant about. Always in the past when software 
| with substantial installed base has finally been supplanted the fall has not 
| been gradual: Lotus and Wordperfect went from world-beaters to also rans in 
| just a few years. I think Microsoft may surprise us by falling equally fast. 
| There may not be much left in two years time.    
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000000430


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Will Microsoft Survive the Next 10 Years?

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| I am not really an expert in this but when I read all the negative
| headlines and articles I ask myself if Microsoft really will survive
| the next 10 years.
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| [...]
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| I am pretty sure that the Open Source Community, the new Ubuntu,
| Google and of course Apple are those companies that are ready for
| our century and they will get more and more people that know what
| they really want.
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http://websquirrel.blogspot.com/2007/03/will-microsoft-survive-next-10-years.html


P. Graham: Microsoft is Dead

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| A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking
| to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo.
| I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of
| Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media
| company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face
| and realized he didn't understand. It was as if I'd told him how much
| girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 80s. Barry who?
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| Microsoft? He didn't say anything, but I could tell he didn't quite
| believe anyone would be frightened of them.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
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