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I never said their nice was small right now. I said that MSFT is not guaranteed a place at the Big Person table in every market forever. For example, when's the

by cbd1984 12y ago

I never said their nice was small right now. I said that MSFT is not guaranteed a place at the Big Person table in every market forever. For example, when's the last time you saw someone using a MSFT mobile device?

oblio 12y ago
.NET & Windows are used in the enterprise space, a lot. If mainframes are still around in enterprises, as a decent market (still worth billions of dollars), I imagine that .NET & Windows will still be around and probably still worth tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars, 20-30-40 years from now. There's no foreseeable threat to Microsoft in the enterprise, that market is roughly split in 3 between (mostly) cross platform C++, (mostly) cross platform Java and Windows-only .NET (I don't think any enterprise really uses Mono in production). And both C++ and Java predate .NET, so enterprises seem to love .NET to have moved over to it.
- cbd1984 12y ago
  Right. The enterprise is one market, but it isn't the only one. Owning it doesn't mean you own anything else. That's my whole point.