Re: "A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead."

Conrad Knauer wrote:

> He meant "dead" as in "No one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore. They
> still make a lot of money—so does IBM, for that matter. But they're not
> dangerous."

The trouble with dead monsters is the length of time after death that
they can still thrash around and squash bystanders. There is also the
mental corruption that fear of them leaves; it can hang on as
near-immortal myth.

Isn't MS liable to continue for decades in both modes? In application
s/w terms, if not OS, are we likely to see an end to the 'standard' use
of MSWord, IE, and PP anytime soon, even if Google manages to draw a
significant number of users into their web-based orbit?

As for Linux, for all that I admire where Ubuntu has managed to get to,
it still demands levels of knowledge and effort that nobody else in my
immediate family is likely to care to invest anytime soon.
Received on Sun Apr 8 14:40:14 2007