[adorno]

Contradictory statements all over the place, like: Microsoft has failed

followed by:

Sooner or later, someone will come along and do a better job than the treacle that Microsoft, offers.

If MS has failed, then, "sooner or later" sounds like it hasn't happened. And in fact, it hasn't happened and is likely to never happen.

This is an article written by someone who absolutely hates Microsoft and would like nothing more to have it fail. This is an article where the author wishes to help make the failure happen, while at the same time, failing to point at all of the positives that Microsoft has going for it, like, the biggest variety of software on the planet, and the biggest user base on the planet, and the most used office package on the planet, and the most used OS on the planet, a huge presence on the internet with Bing and other major properties, a huge presence on the cloud with its many different services, a new OS for mobile platforms and which is, despite what the author above says, doing quite well in sales, and a new OS which (whether the author likes it or not) is being included with most new PC purchases and which is also very low cost for those who wish to upgrade from any previous Windows version.

MS is also the company with the mobile platform which threatens to take away huge sales from Android and Apple's mobile platforms, and that has already started to show in sales figures. What MS takes away in sales from Apple or Google, is something that will affect the bottom line of Apple and Google. Apple's outlook for sales have had to be lowered since Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT were released to market.

The author brags about the sales of WP8 being slow, but the strategy on he part of MS is not to make huge sales on a week-end and then brag about in on Monday to its user base, which is what Apple is all about. MS's strategy is long-term, and the figures they care about, are the ones reported on a quarterly basis. If weekly or monthly or quarterly figures were to be the determining factor for a failure, then MS would not have persisted in building its XBox system and the accompanying ecosystem.

The author of the piece above is one who wishes to see MS fail, and is divorced from the reality on the ground.

[softwarecreator]

The author of the piece above is one who wishes to see MS fail, and is divorced from the reality on the ground.

MS haters have been predicting Microsoft's downfall since 1995, and yet, here they still are.  MS's marketshare will grow and shrink, like every business in history, yet they still are number one and likely to be that way for the forseeable future.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

At the moment he seems to be making his name with attacks on various management teams....

He lit up on AMD management a bit ago......

Found it.....

AMD is Imploding because Management doesn't understand semiconductors