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Nocera: Does Windows Still Matter?

• stcredzero 18y ago
  Does being "dead" mean that you are large, highly successful, can afford to fund massive R&D, but have become too big and ossified to deliver on anything truly groundbreaking your R&D produces? Maybe Microsoft is just in the same stage of life that Ma Bell and Xerox was in awhile back?
  • raganwald 18y ago
    "Maybe Microsoft is just in the same stage of life that Ma Bell and Xerox was in awhile back?" => Not to mention Kodak, General Motors, Lotus, and many others.
• volida 18y ago
  yes
• jcl 18y ago
  I’m convinced that iTunes and the iPhone are not the only reasons Mac is gaining market share. The other is that people have come to realize that they do not really need Windows anymore. Any ol’ operating system will do. If any ol' operating system will do, I'd expect people to choose the cheapest one they could find. Since Mac is gaining market share and is not the cheapest option, the operating system's contents must still matter.
  • gamble 18y ago
    Any operating system will do, in the sense that since the network effects of Windows client applications are no longer an overriding concern thanks to the web, consumers are free to choose an OS based on other considerations.
    • jcl 18y ago
      Yes, but the fact that people are choosing an OS based on other considerations indicates that Microsoft could do something to win them back, which runs counter to the article's thesis.
• cypress-hill 18y ago
  wishful thinking
• deleted 18y ago
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