Posted on 02/11/2005 5:41:56 AM PST by ShadowAce
Microsoft ping
There is one thing that hackers these days are good for. They are slowly forcing Microsoft to make a better product.
Microsoft won't "die" until another product comes along to kill it. So far, only small fish swim with the shark known as Microsoft.
"M$ isn't going anywhere."
Just when they seem to be faultering, something new comes out to keep them alive.
Too, remember the Millenium uproar? Many thought COBAL was dead, but it is so pervasive in the IT world very few could justify getting rid of it.
I suspect MS is similar.....the products are so pervasive it's not practical to see it dye?
If someone frees us from Microsoft there will be dancing in the streets and that company will be welcomed as liberators. The statue of gates will be torn down and he will be found in spider hole eating a snickers bar.
They're not going anywhere.
I wish I could develop something in my garage to help people out the way Gates has done. It'd be the ultimate. Who cares if it makes him finacially secure? Too many people in this World suffer from penis envy and it really shows up once the word "Microsoft" is spoken.
And the folks who swallow the crap on "pirates of silicone valley" get what they deserve.
*whew*
For a second I thought I was going to have to zero out my drive and rush out to buy OSX or *nix!
and after years of bracing against withering governmental attacks, all out war by hackers (who don't target Linux much - yet), and an open source free-lunch communism movement that makes all software makers out as robber barons... I think Microsoft will survive. IBM, SUN, HP, Oracle et al. have all joined from time to time in cheering the forces of evil clawing and biting at the once garage and basement entrepreneurial company but will soon enough be beating back the forces that they support if they want to remain profit making corporations. IBM was THE Borg. It is masquerading as a little guy resource (they just love linux and java - yeah right, as long as they can sell more iron and services). Sun has a microsoft deathwish jones so bad that it can't see its own decaying carcass. It makes me sick to see how we have turned what was - cheaper and cooler for the real folks into such a demon. If it were not for these smart guys (and smart gals), computers would still be the playthings exclusive to banks, insurance companies, and upscale art designers.
LOL!
Except it's COBOL!
I have to agree with the author's analysis. I happen to think he's dead on. While I don't wish ill to Microsoft, I cannot think of anythink very innovative that has come from this company in a long, long time.
MS has a lot of money and rather than blazing new trails they have hurled mountains of cash at ideas and projects that others created and brought to market (Google, X-box, MSN, audio downloads, etc.). Their corporate investments in other companies have really had a poor track record as well.
The point seems to be that MS has enjoyed mountains of cash, posessing some of the greatest technical talent on the planet, a near monopoly in a number of applications, and it still hasn't really broken any new ground at all for a long, long time.
I agree with the author, unless MS has under development some super wiz-bang product or application I see a long slow decline of the once unstoppable goliath.
Yeah. Sure. </EYE-ROLLING>
It's CABAL -- everybody knows it's all a big plot, after all....
It did happen to Apple, and it wasn't "disastrous" to Macintosh. Ah, how quickly the press forgets the long sordid saga of Apple's inability to deliver that brought them finally to OS X. OS X got it right, in the end, but for quite a few years their inability to deliver their next-gen OS was a joke.
"persona non-gratis"
Doesn't this mean "person not free"?
Doesn't he mean person not welcome or PERSONA NON GRATA?
MSM cannot be trusted. Who cares what they print?
That was once true of AT&T, as well.
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