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Microsoft Has Become The Follower & Will Lead No More
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| It sounds so wrong. Microsoft, one of the two
| remaining companies that helped bring the
| idea of personal computing into the
| mainstream is saying that the future it is
| betting on is in the âcloudâ. How strange is
| that? That is somewhat like a black person
| from the 1870s stating that he was betting on
| the institution of slavery.
|
| [...]
|
| Now, in a story from PC Magazine, we have a
| message that Steve Ballmer has stated the
| company is betting its future on cloud
| computing. What a turnaround.
|
| The trouble is, I donât think Mr. Ballmer is
| doing anything but hedging bets, and being
| disingenuous in the process, because he knows
| (or should, anyway) that once cloud computing
| comes, Microsoft becomes irrelevant and
| unnecessary.
|
| [...]
|
| The problem in the end is that Microsoft is
| not, and never really wanted to be, like IBM.
| If any change in the pecking order comes as a
| result of âthe cloudâ catching on, it will be
| IBM, Oracle, and others that know what
| distributed computing, and client-server
| computing are all about on the grand scale.
| That doesnât say Microsoft; that says the
| companies that make and use the big iron.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/theoracle/2010/03/05/microsoft-has-become-the-follower-will-lead-no-more/
Correction: Microsoft ha always been a /follower/. It just used dirty marketing tricks,
blackmail, and bribery.
Related:
Vista's UI is Better Than This!?
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| Watch and drool. By the way, you can try this on your own PC right now!
| I'm not yet sure how to unlock every one of these visual effects, but
| damn - XGL is impressive...
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http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/09/06/vistas-ui-is-better-than-this/
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