Microsoft poised for a fall…
I was wondering if anyone thought Microsoft was poised for a big fall? What has Microsoft done in the past few years that one would call successful? The last I can remember was MS won the browser war over Netscape. After that, what did the do? Let’s see. AOL vs. MSN. No contest, who uses MSN? Digital TV? No one came near to using Microsoft TV. MS-Office? Prior win, and they bought Excel rather than develop it. Search engines? Google, google, … gurgle, gurgle, bye bye MS (down the drain). How about Operating Systems, MS’s been pretty good at that, right? Vista versus Mac OSX. Well, that went so well for MS, they had to change it’s name and release it as Windows 7, which nobody wants. After that, I think we’re into fringe markets. So is this why Bill Gates decided to concentrate on philanthropy?