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It's largely irrelevant to most startups wether Microsoft went wrong because of X, or because of Y. Point is, they don't matter any more. Interesting from a his
by axod 18y ago
It's largely irrelevant to most startups wether Microsoft went wrong because of X, or because of Y. Point is, they don't matter any more. Interesting from a historical point of view, but not much more.
MS still shows at every single opportunity that they do not understand the internet, and they'd actually rather it didn't exist. That's unlikely to change.
- hvs 18y agoI would tend to disagree since nearly 30% of web servers run IIS, and ASP.NET is one of the most popular web frameworks on the market today. Considering that it is largely competing with free servers and frameworks, that's fairly impressive. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/04/06/april_2009_web_server_survey.html http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/04/06/april_2009_web_...
- axod 18y agoI don't think it's useful to just go for raw numbers - it'll be skewed in ms favor with tons of big irrelevant corporations using it by default. How many big consumer sites use IIS/ASP.NET? How many startups? How many high traffic sites use it? A web startup using IIS/ASP.NET is quite a rarity. I'd expect maybe 2% of startups? If that. The fact the xBox doesn't even have a web browser should be reason enough for alarm.
- pbz 18y agoI could say the same thing about any Linux stack. Do you have any stats for that 2%, because my gut tells me 98%?
- maukdaddy 18y agoI don't think irrelevant means what you think it means. I'm no fan of Microsoft, but they are certainly relevant. And those "big corporations" are certainly relevant too - they spend billions of dollars on hardware and software.
- axod 18y agoOK to clarify, Irrelevant if you're doing a consumer based web startup. If you're doing B2B or corporate stuff, then sure, you have to deal with that rubbish along with everything else.
- OmarIsmail 18y agoYou're so wrong. And even if you weren't wrong,writing off the huge B2B market is pretty silly. In any event, MySpace and PlentyOfFish both run off of .NET So the largest dating site in the world, and the second largest social network. I'd say that's pretty relevant.
- mahmud 18y ago> So the largest dating site in the world Ahem, largest FREE dating website :-)
- mahmud 18y agoMicrosoft might own a 30% of the web server market share, but that makes them just a glorified tool vendor. A far cry from Microsoft's earlier potential as humanity's gateway to the "digital age". So they created a popular web framework, wooptidoo, and so has every 2cent PHP developer.