from Paul Graham to Ian Lamont date Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:22 AM subject Re: 2nd anniversary of "Microsoft is Dead" essay - new factors to consider? A lot of

from Paul Graham to Ian Lamont date Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:22 AM subject Re: 2nd anniversary of "Microsoft is Dead" essay - new factors to consider? A lot of people misunderstood that essay, and asked how I could claim a company making so much money was dead. Obviously I didn't mean Microsoft was bankrupt. What I meant was that they were no longer a factor one had to consider when doing something in technology. That's still true today. The big stories in the 2 years since have been AWS and iPhone apps. Microsoft's mindshare has continued to slowly erode. Thanks to AWS, someone starting a startup today thinks more about Amazon than Microsoft. An online retailer! It would have seemed almost impossible to people in 1999 that anyone would be saying that in 2009. --pg