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Something Happened: Where's Microsoft?
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| What's interesting is that (a) Google could
| overlook something so obvious and so
| fundamental and that (b) it responded not
| once but twice in a matter of days. That's
| really living on Internet time, and shows
| how things have changed from the âold daysâ
| - a few years ago, say â when errors were
| baked into software and would have taken
| months to sort out.
|
| [...]
|
| Whatever you think of these recent
| happenings, one thing is clear: not a
| single one of the most exciting events in
| computing â Buzz, gigabit/second fibre
| networking, iPad, Android and the rest â
| has come from Microsoft. Indeed, the way in
| which Google and Apple have completely
| drowned out any news from that company for
| months on end is without precedent and, I
| believe, a major watershed.
|
| [...]
|
| As for the digital music market,
| Microsoft's Zune has practically become a
| by-word for electronic embarrassment, so
| bad and unloved is the system. And even in
| a sector where Microsoft's market-share is
| more respectable â that of gaming consoles
| â the infamous âRed Ring of Deathâ problem
| threatens to tarnish its reputation there,
| too.
|
| This leaves the mainstream computing sector
| as Microsoft's stronghold. Despite constant
| attempts by pundits (including this one) to
| descry a âYear of the GNU/Linux Desktopâ,
| Windows shows little sign of losing its
| grip on the desktop. But what has become
| increasingly clear is that most computing
| will be conducted through either the
| browser â for cloud computing services, for
| example â or through smartphones like the
| iPhone and Android devices. Both render the
| desktop operating system completely moot
| (not least because Firefox is rapidly
| moving towards parity with Internet
| Explorer in many national markets), so
| whether it's Windows or GNU/Linux that sits
| at the bottom of the stack is really
| irrelevant.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2792&blogid=14
Recent:
"# Business: $4.75 billion, down 3 percent from $4.88 billion a
year earlier. # Online Services Business: $581 million, down 5 percent
from $609 million a year earlier. # Entertainment & Devices: $2.9 billion, down
11 percent from $3.26 billion a year earlier."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704878904575031521661435134.html
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