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> But they've maneuvered themselves into a position where they are no longer dominant That's a fantasy. Microsoft still dominates their core market (the Office
by lukeschlather 14y ago
> But they've maneuvered themselves into a position where they are no longer dominant
That's a fantasy. Microsoft still dominates their core market (the Office Suite) and they also dominate the enterprise server market. There's really nothing that can match Exchange + ActiveDirectory for ease of use and setup, both on the end-user side and on the admin side. Google Apps is nice, but it's got some shortcomings, and you can't host it on your own hardware.
- cooldeal 14y agoI've seen the sentiment on HN generally is that if it's ageneral conversation about the post-PC world, MS is totally a dying platform losing relevance and Windows 8 is the worse software on the planet which will totally crash and burn and take down MS with no chance of survival in the hands of Apple and Google. However, if we're talking about Secure Boot in Windows RT or Firefox on Windows RT, suddenly it's Microsoft trying to kill off Linux and Firefox in Windows 8/RT with their utter dominance of computing. And what boggles the mind is that it's many of the exact same posters making both these arguments.
- wickedchicken 14y agoA whale falling from the sky can do a lot of damage when it lands.
- ajross 14y agoIt's certainly not a "fantasy". I work in the corporate world too, ducking PPTs daily. And I don't use windows, nor office, nor outlook. And it works fine, though I do have to do some impedance matching fairly often. In the consumer space, it's not even true: no one uses MS software beyond Windows and (increasingly less so) IE. So yes, MS still "dominates" their own shrinking niche. But they are no longer able to leverage that to control other parts of the market. So they're not the threat they once were, even if they're still as evil.