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no, no, no. Microsoft is far from dead. PG is simply wrong. Just look at the work that Live Labs is producing. No "Web 2.0" company can compete with the brilli
by _bn 17y ago
no, no, no. Microsoft is far from dead. PG is simply wrong.
Just look at the work that Live Labs is producing. No "Web 2.0" company can compete with the brilliance behind photosynth. They are kidding themselves if they think they can.
I'll tell you why Microsoft won't survive. It's because Microsoft isn't a leader in innovation. Steve Ballmer doesn't have any balls. He's simply satisfied with being #2 and playing it safe while letting Steve Jobs create new markets and dominating them (with style).
Again, Microsoft isn't dead. If anything, this whole "Web 2.0" and Ycombinator incubation thing is dead. If the big boys think that there is any serious competition coming out of these programs then they have another thing coming. The recession has reduced a lot of this noise, and the real animals have been let out of their cage.
- olefoo 17y agoMicrosoft Research is not Microsoft; it's like the Honors College at a large state university a small enclave of excellence set against a larger backdrop of mediocrity. The larger culture at Microsoft is still operating under the assumptions of the 1990's when they were large and in charge. They have been coasting on the monopoly for some time. But, they are not the hundred year computing culture; by their very nature they can't be.