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. "

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Reason number 9...

[fak3r]

Continued copying of *all* of Apple's inovation:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-413444611 2378047444&q=Motorrider&pl=true

How much would you like to bet...

[Kjella]

...that these comments will contain less than 10% of the regular Dvorak-bashing, because it happens to coincide with slashdot groupthink? I know many, many solid businesses whose success or failure will have little to do with the slight IT overhead of Windows vs Linux, and that are so entrenched in MS products and MS-only software it'll take decades to dig them out. Hell, our mother company recently purchased a core banking solution in Java, to replace the old system written in COBOL. Yes, COBOL in 2006. I've seen enough bluescreens around the world to know that many companies are equally tied to Windows. Read the recent MS financial reports? Yes the Xbox360 is a lackluster but they're raking in cash like never before on their cash cows.

The only thing the stock investors aren't happy with is that Microsoft seems to be throwing all that money into a big black hole. And if they become the iTMS of general-purpose DRM, they'll have a lock-in of previously unmatched proportions (and that's saying a lot). Of course, again slashdot thinks the people will raise up in rebellion, which is optimistic at best. Mircosoft isn't anywhere near dead in the water. Think IBM in the 1980s and you're looking at dead in the water. Dead in the water is when your cash cows are sick and dying, and you're desperately soul searching to find a way to stay in business. Microsoft is suffering from nothing than not seeing any good business to throw money at.