On May 14, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote:
> Not surprising. Monopolies have shelf lives, and MSFT is a decade
> past its
> prime. All its attempts at expanding its PC monopoly have crashed and
> burned. Cellphones: nope. Servers: nope. Its videogame biz has
> managed to
> lose $4 billion, while barely denting behemoths Sony and Nintendo.
>
> It's Mister Softie's "surge" moment. There won't be a collapse,
> just slow
> grinding death at the hands of the open source insurgency.
The standard line is that monopolies can't survive without state protection. Mr Softee doesn't have that.
As Steve Jobs said the other day, "I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a cheque [sic]. If so, then Microsoft would have great products."