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It points out that Microsoft is still a market leader in a lot of markets (including web-markets such as IM and email), they are earning lots of money in a bad
by amix 17y ago
It points out that Microsoft is still a market leader in a lot of markets (including web-markets such as IM and email), they are earning lots of money in a bad economy and they are known to be excellent business people (some of the best in the market)... I think it's very naive to label one of the biggest companies in the IT industry as dead in any foreseeable future.
Btw. I also point out statical rates: Microsoft shares in IM, web-email, console market, developer tools market, web-server market etc. are all growing and aren't declining.
- whatusername 17y agoweb-email? Growing in share? wow.. Any links for that? And does dev-tools consist of the paid market - or does it compete with free/oss/notepad? I still like PG's clarification of "Dead" - basically that they're no longer growing / pushing the boundary.
- carbon8 17y ago"I also point out statical rates: Microsoft shares in IM, web-email, console market, developer tools market, web-server market etc. are all growing and aren't declining." Depends on how you measure it. For instance, apparently in terms of monthly uniques hotmail is declining and will be overtaken by gmail this year: http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213300662&subSection=News http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArti...