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Microsoft's Nightmare Scenario

Posted by Zonk on from the who-needs-a-pc dept.

unityxxx wrote to mention a News.com article about Microsoft's nightmare scenario - the Web as the next platform. From the article: "The nightmare is inching closer to reality and Microsoft execs are apparently paying attention to the decade-old alert. As part of a management shuffle, Microsoft said Tuesday it would make hosted services a more strategic part of the company and fold its MSN Web portal business into its platform product development group, where Windows is developed. Another memo, called 'Google--The Winner Takes All (And Not Just Search),' is also making the rounds. This internal memo, written in 2005, argues that Google threatens Microsoft and the company's crown jewel, Windows."

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  1. MS's Nightmare by gowen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wait, I thought that was Eric Raymond.

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  2. Re:Microsoft will be just fine. by cryptoz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's not like we have to wait until everyone gets food and water dependably until we can have nice happy broadband access here in North America. Something like 33,000 young children die every day of long-term hunger, and that hasn't stopped us from having as much broadband as we do. This is not meant to be flaimbait, so don't take it that way. My comment is just that I think that fast, reliable internet will come to the developed world much faster than you think. And while I agree that the change will not cripple Microsoft, I do think that the shift will be in the next few years, judging by the speed and momentum which it has gained recently.

  3. Re:The web as a platform? No, thanks. by wirehead_rick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The web is an infrastructure that lets our individual machines communicate with one another

    Uhhhhhhh, no.

    The web as in the word "web" is a contraction of the "WWW" or "World Wide Web" is a system of servers and clients. http Servers and web browser Clients.

    Now if you want to talk about "an infrastructure that lets our individual machines communicate with one another" then you must be talking about the Internet.

    The web and Internet are two very different things. Judging by your post you must have meant "Internet."

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