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Paul Graham Claims "Microsoft is Dead"
netbuzz writes "He doesn't mean dead as in six feet under, but rather that the software giant no longer instills the kind of fear — particularly among entrepreneurs — that it did back in the day when it was making road kill out of companies like Netscape. Microsoft obits have been around for almost as long as the company, but Graham's stature, style and devoted following are likely to make this one a classic."
But if it keeps releasing "upgrades" that serve to only make your computer slower and slower then it will be soon.
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I won't believe this untill it is confirmed by Netcraft
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
...it's just pining for the fjords.
It is now official. Paul Graham confirms: Microsoft is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Redmond company when analysists confirmed that Windows market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all serious users desktops. Coming on the heels of a recent survey which plainly states that Windows has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Microsoft is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be Steve Jobs to predict Microsofts future. The hand writing is on the wall: Microsoft faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Microsoft because Microsoft is dying. Things are looking very bad for Microsoft. As many of us are already aware, Microsoft continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
All major surveys show that Microsoft has steadily declined in market share. Microsoft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Microsoft is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Microsoft continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Microsoft is dead.
Fact: Microsoft is dying
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It is official; Paul Graham: microsoft is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered microsoft community when IDC confirmed that microsoft market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 97 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that microsoft has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. microsoft is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict microsoft's future. The hand writing is on the wall: microsoft faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for microsoft because microsoft is dying. Things are looking very bad for microsoft. As many of us are already aware, microsoft continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Windows is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long timeWindows developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Microsoft is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Vista leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Vista. How many users of windows are there? Let's see. The number of Vista versus windows xp posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Vista users. Vista posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of windows xp posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put windows at about 80 percent of the microsoft market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 WinXP users. This is consistent with the number of WinXP Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Hotmail, abysmal sales and so on, Windows NT went out of business and was taken over by the Vista team who sell another troubled OS. Now Windows Vista is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that microsoft has steadily declined in market share. microsoft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If microsoft is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. microsoft continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, microsoft is dead.
Fact: microsoft is dying
the byproduct of years of oppression by the white man
What? You're saying that I'm creepy and pathetic because my wife is 17 years younger than me?
I'm not anti-social, I'm anti-idiot.
then somebody please bury the fucking body as it appears to be continuing to stink up the room...
Not to mention release diseases like Vista...
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That might have been true about 10 years ago, but I don't see that today in the application market place.
Well, I don't know where you're working, but certainly where I am the web app still has a long, long way to go before it can take over the world.
Certainly there are applications like MS-Office that run poorly under Wine (due to invoking undocumented APIs).
Ah, the good old undocumented APIs urban legend.
And in the case of MS-Office, you also have a strong competitor like Open Office that does nearly the same thing.
Except for all the things it doesn't do as well, or the same way.
And application developers do take Linux seriously with even commercial ports to Linux for many applications.
Many ? "A few" maybe. Linux still has a lot of growing up to do before it gets a heavy commercial software presence.
Since Microsoft dates to the early 1970's, that is a pretty large condemnation. And I would agree.
This is ridiculous. Microsoft were founded in 1975 and didn't have anything close a market dominating influence until around 1990 when Windows 3.0 became a surprise success. Until about 1995, Microsoft's influence outside of the low-low-end PC market was basically zero. You might - just barely - be able to mount an argument that they've had the power to "suppress" OS development since then, but the from-scratch development of major OS projects like Linux (even if it's just another unix), NeXT and BeOS during that timeframe, not to mention the continued development - including major changes like a hardware architecture switch - of MacOS make it pretty clear they haven't. Throw Microsoft's own contribution - Windows NT - into the mix, consider all the "others" like mainframes, UNIX variants, Netware, etc and your argument becomes even sillier.
That is exactly the point I was trying to make that it is Microsoft that is preventing any sort of serious development in terms of creating something really new.
No, the reality is that the kind of revolutionary improvements you're thinking about just aren't there to be made - and haven't been for decades.
I guess "some time before Microsoft" would go back to the 1960's?
"Some time before Microsoft", in the context of them dominating the market, would take you to about the beginning of the '90s. In an absolute sense, it would be any time before 1975. I'd have to say pretty much all the major issues of - and advances in - OS design theory were hashed out before 1975 ? Heck, even the first GUI concepts were banging around in research facilities before then - and while recent _implementation_ updates like Quartz, Aero and Compiz are non-trivial improvements, the basic premise is still the same as it was three decades ago.
Sorry, but the idea that Microsoft have suppressed OS development for 30-odd years just doesn't carry any weight in the face of actual evidence. (Added to that, I bet you're hypocritical enough to argue out of the other side of your mouth that Microsoft do nothing but copy other products.)