Loading ...Microsoft RIP? (and DIY KFC)
Beautiful plumage on Monday’s IT Blogwatch: in which we ask, “Is Microsoft dead?”. Not to mention how to make your own Kentucky-style fried chicken…
A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of Microsoft. That was why they’d positioned themselves as a “media company” instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face and realized he didn’t understand. It was as if I’d told him how much girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 80s. Barry who?
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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 … What killed them? Four things, I think, all of them occurring simultaneously in the mid 2000s … Google … Ajax … broadband Internet … [and] Apple.
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