On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:12:55 -0700, John Locke wrote:
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> I would hope to see a shakeup at the top, some major down sizing and a
> whole new set of software development policies that give the customers
> what they want instead of what Microsoft wants.
That's the problem alright. MS dominates a software niche that is
becoming commoditized, in the sense that multiple low-cost choices are
becoming available. The marketplace is doing to Microsoft what Microsoft
did to Netscape. MS has been a hugely successful licensing franchise...
can it achieve success as a service company? I doubt it. For one thing,
management will postpone the reckoning for as long as possible, which is
what they are trying to do with Vista.
Charlie
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