“Microsoft is dead“. That is the latest essay by essayist and programmer Paul Graham .
Has Microsoft gone out of money? Will the company disappear tomorrow? No.
It is less fearsome today. That is what he means. They dominate the desktop, browser market but what else they can do today?
But it’s gone now. I can sense that. No one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore. They still make a lot of money—so does IBM, for that matter. But they’re not dangerous.
According to Paul, the four things killed MS:
1) Google
2) Web based Software (Web 2.0)
3) Broadband Internet
4) Apple OS X
I already know what the reaction to this essay will be. Half the readers will say that Microsoft is still an enormously profitable company, and that I should be more careful about drawing conclusions based on what a few people think in our insular little “Web 2.0” bubble. The other half, the younger half, will complain that this is old news.
Paul concluded.
I recommend reading the article before you throw in your comment.
Read: Microsoft is dead
Picture: AFP
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April 8th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Nobody can ‘kill’ Micorsoft. It is invincible
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April 8th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
‘A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within’
W. Durant
Hetiang deuh hian MS pawh anmahni tihsual engengmaw vang hian midang an phusa zual sauhva. Hawtu lah an pung tual tual.
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April 8th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Kei chu ka la haw pha ve meuh lo… a thlak na tur ka la hmu ve tlat lo.. ka tan chuan free OS a ni tho tho….
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April 8th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Apple OS X te ai chuan ka la trangkaipui fet a ni…
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April 8th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Benji.. Epul AWES Xi develop ve mai teh a
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April 8th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
em mo ni le ?? … mebbe they may not b powerful as they used to be …..’dead’ tih teh tawp theih cu nih ka ring lo IMO, not now or ever !!!
also, a dangerous leh raas loh lampang zwngin ka lo en ngai lo sim2 a….
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April 8th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
dangerous an tih na lam chu ‘business’ lam ah a ni xok lo maw…te ka lo tia…
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April 28th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Microsoft is dead?? *Clears his throat*
Here’s the latest – Post Vista sales, Microsoft posts a net profit of $4.93 billion, beating expectations: CNN Money
I guess Paul Graham is eating his words now.. Bwahahahaha
Sorry Ben, couldn’t help it
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April 29th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Has Microsoft gone out of money? Will the company disappear tomorrow? No.
– hehe Paul does not talk of immediate tomorrow.
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Has Microsoft gone out of money? Will the company disappear tomorrow? No.
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April 29th, 2007 at 2:48 am
Microsoft admits Vista failure
WITH TWO OVERLAPPING events, Microsoft admitted what we have been saying all along, Vista, aka Windows Me Two (Me II), is a joke that no one wants.
https://www.theinquirer.net/def.....icle=39087
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April 29th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Sorry Ben, That was The Inquirer on 21 April 2007.
The Inquirer on 27 April 2007:-
DID YOU HEAR the one about the software company everybody wrote off but just turned in a big fat profit for the first three months of the year?
Not it’s not a joke, unlike this*, but Microsoft – supposed by many Web 2.0 wibblers to be a company on its deathbed, receiving the last rites and disclosing some uncomfortable truths to Junior about how he came into the world – would appear to be alive and well.
Bwahahahaha
Regards,
MS Fanboy!
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April 29th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
sory fanboy. I don’t buy your flame bait.
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April 29th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
L-O-L
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April 29th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
I dont want microsoft dead……Bcos it is so much fun pirating their products…hehehe
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June 26th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Here’s this rebuttal by Don.
https://dondodge.typepad.com/th....._does.html
Most of the commenter’s at Don’s blog feel Don missed Paul’s point.
To clarify his point, Paul also posted
Microsoft is Dead: The Cliffs Notes
https://paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html
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June 26th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Don is Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team.
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