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The legacy will make sure Microsoft is still the #1 Software company in 10 years and Windows the #1 Operating System.
by tybris 17y ago
The legacy will make sure Microsoft is still the #1 Software company in 10 years and Windows the #1 Operating System.
- lallysingh 17y agoMeh. Windows boxes are a bit of a pain to maintain. For legacy, it's not hard to imagine a small number of citrix servers for legacy software.
- olefoo 17y agoThis is what IBM kept telling themselves in 1986. The installed base of a legacy platform is not a guarantee of the health of the platform owner. Other companies that made this mistake; DEC, SUN, AOL. In ecological terms, MSFT has overshot the carrying capacity of it's niche, and has not been able to exploit or create new habitat as an operating systems company.
- tybris 17y agoAre you referring to "the IBM"? The company with a Market Cap of $150 billion, larger than Google, Apple, Cisco and every other IT company except Microsoft? There's a big gap between what is true on the web and what is true in reality. IBM is very much alive and kicking, still building mainframes and whatnot.
- olefoo 17y agoYes, after they lost something like a third of their market cap and shrank, and reorganized and clawed their way back. """Gerstner quarterbacked one of history's most dramatic corporate turnarounds. For those who follow business stories like football games, his tale of the rise, fall and rise of IBM might be the ultimate slow-motion replay. He became IBM's CEO in 1993, when the gargantuan company was near collapse.""" From one of the reviews here http://www.amazon.com/Elephants-Dance-Inside-Historic-Turnaround/dp/0060523794 http://www.amazon.com/Elephants-Dance-Inside-Historic-Turnar...