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The end of Microsoft. A door opens to a new cloud.
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| I have been waiting for something
| spectacular to happen any day. And itâs not
| the explosion of another volcano in
| Iceland, but it will be a global event with
| far reaching ramifications that will be as
| well known. Appleâs market capitalization
| is about to be worth more than Microsoft's.
| That is quite a change from a decade ago.
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http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/04/29/the-end-of-microsoft-a-door-opens-to-a-new-cloud/
Microsoft--down but by no means out
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| After all, this is the company that went
| from calling open-source software "un-
| American" to embracing it on a large scale.
| It's also the company that killed Blackbird
| when it proved to be a dead-end and
| recently RIP'd its Courier tablet.
|
| Microsoft is also the company that has
| dumped several iterations of its mobile
| Windows to experiment with two iterations
| of a new mobile strategy: Kin and Windows
| Phone 7. The two will likely converge over
| time, but Microsoft is placing multiple
| bets.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-20004395-16.html
I Sense a Weakness in the Force
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| All the OEMs have a toe in the water of
| GNU/Linux. That is why M$ cannot raise its
| prices even though they have spent hundreds
| of millions promoting up-selling and
| killing the netbook. The netbook is poised
| to re-emerge with ARM and unencumbered by
| that other OS. Another reason why M$ cannot
| raise prices is because hundreds of
| millions of XP machines are still in use.
| Owners will undergo hundreds of dollars
| each to replace these machines. $150 or so
| for that other OS would be conspicuous
| compared to other options.
|
| The monopoly is a house of cards about to
| crash down. It is crumbling slowly at the
| moment but any shift in its foundations
| will cause an avalanche. This is over and
| above the cloud-immobility issue. There is
| no monopoly in the cloud. People know what
| happened with M$ having a desktop monopoly.
| They will not be fooled again.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/05/08/i-sense-a-weakness-in-the-force/
The Next Battle Against Microsoft
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| Recently I was with Craig Mundie, an
| executive at Microsoft, and I said: "Craig,
| how many servers and data centers do you
| think that our customers would need to set
| up if we didn't exist as a company?" I was
| talking about doing just basic customer
| information or building complex apps. He
| said: "More than 100,000."
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http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/05/benioff-microsoft-facebook-intelligent-technology-salesforce.html?boxes=Homepagechannels
Recent:
Benioff on Microsoft Mobile: 'They're Nowhere'
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| Seattle Times Biz-Tech reporter Sharon Chan
| recently caught Salesforce.com CEO Marc
| Benioffâs session and found him ârolling with
| a Microsoft (News - Alert) rant.â
|
| As usual, Benioff had opinions and wasnât shy
| about expressing them. âIn the world of
| mobile, which is only behind socialâ in
| importance, Benioff said, Microsoft âare
| nowhere.â
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http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/sales-software/articles/77634-benioff-microsoft-mobile-theyre-nowhere.htm
Marc Benioff's mantra: Anything but Microsoft
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| I think Microsoft is still a dinosaur. More than ever, it tries to hold onto
| its monopolistic position around technology that they hold, whether it's SQL
| Server, whether it's NT, whether it's Windows, whether it's Office--these are
| their cash cows they don't want slaughtered.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9975019-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Marc Benioff taunts the awakened dinosaurs
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| Following is part of the exchange, where I asked Benioff for his thoughts on
| Microsoft. He has called Microsoft a dinosaur, incapable of innovation, and a
| monopolist.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9895987-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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