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John Dvorak's Eight Signs MS is Dead in the Water
j79 writes "John Dvorak has written an opinion piece on why he believes Microsoft is dead in the water. He discusses Vista, Office 2007, MSN and MSN search, the Xbox 360, Pad-based computing, .Net, and Microsoft's obsession with Google. "
Microsoft has indeed shown lack of vision by concentrating not on where its strength laid, the operating system, but instead parleying with the competitors in 'side ventures' it had expanded to.
I cant complain though, i believe that this has given the open source community time to breath and catch up.
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Mister Coward, you obviously didn't read TFM where Dvorak says Microsoft will continue to make "gobs and gobs" of money. He argues that they will be less and less relavent, not that they will make less and less profit.
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
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The scroll wheel was invented by Mouse Systems, not Microsoft.
Just because MS got a patent on it, doesn't mean they had anything to do with its creation.
See this article for more.
From what I can tell, MS has never innovated even once, but instead buys or steals ideas from others, or just buys the companies outright.
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For someone currently using the new Office beta, and having been intimately familiar with previous versions, I'd just like to say that the learning curve is suprisingly low. I've had little problem getting going with it, and my documents look arguably more polished now since some features are better "exposed" with the ribbon.
On the flip-side, finding the options and changing defaults is trickier if you don't know what to look for. But overall, I think the "retraining" argument doesn't hold a lot of weight.
Why is the parent modded insightful? Modems are all over the freaking place. Any analog large-pipe that carries data requires a modem; cable, DSL (including T1, T3, etc). If you are a home owner with internet access (and don't have FIOS), you most likely have a modem. And regardless, the point is that Hayes isn't popular anymore. With all their resources, they could have switched to home networking equipment or online multimedia or microwave macaroni and cheese, but instead they faded into obscurity.