if thats the beginning of the end then we have had the end maybe a dozen times from what i can remember.
you forget that MS can afford to fail, repeatedly. The other players cannot.
and lets not forget, MS basically is the the tool used to usher in the end user internet age. sure, i was online with email and the fore runner of the web, but it wasn't until MS did the rest of the people get a taste.
not saying MS has helped, but for the company that let the public in, a lot of people seem to just ooze hatred for a company. dont like them, fine, but wish for their demise and with it one less employer in this country seem a little too fanatical for my taste.
I'm certainly not one to hope for an immediate demise of Microsoft. My distaste for their buying out and swallowing up small businesses (some more voluntarily than others) only wishes a similar devolution of the company into 101 spinoffs founded by former Microsoft employees. It makes me smile already when I read articles now about all the cool (and some rather puny) stuff that has come out this past year from former Google employees. It takes a flow of both money and ideas to keep an economy afloat and MS has done little to circulate the flow of ideas in the marketplace.
The cultural shift required to wrest Microsoft from the top of the heap will take a generational change, undoubtedly. A two-party system sucks in politics and I hold out no hope for a future that is divided into MS vs Non-MS.
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Date: 2008-08-19 12:50 am (UTC)you forget that MS can afford to fail, repeatedly. The other players cannot.
and lets not forget, MS basically is the the tool used to usher in the end user internet age. sure, i was online with email and the fore runner of the web, but it wasn't until MS did the rest of the people get a taste.
not saying MS has helped, but for the company that let the public in, a lot of people seem to just ooze hatred for a company. dont like them, fine, but wish for their demise and with it one less employer in this country seem a little too fanatical for my taste.
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Date: 2008-08-19 01:11 am (UTC)The cultural shift required to wrest Microsoft from the top of the heap will take a generational change, undoubtedly. A two-party system sucks in politics and I hold out no hope for a future that is divided into MS vs Non-MS.