“Microsoft is Dead”
Here's an Outstanding essay on the end of Microsoft’s reign over the computer industry by Paul
Graham co-founders of Y Combinator(it funds startups).
He starts from how Microsoft started after IBM and how it monopolized. But this monopoly is gone now. The time has come , No one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore. They still make lot of money - but they aren't dangerous.
He writes what killed Microsoft , they are - Google , Gmail , broadband Internet , OS X. He suggests what can save Microsoft from dying away !!!.. He nicely adds at the end
"I already know what the reaction to this essay will be. Half the readers will say that Microsoft is still an enormously profitable company, and that I should be more careful about drawing conclusions based on what a few people think in our insular little "Web 2.0" bubble. The other half, the younger half, will complain that this is old news."
This is a must read for all geeks../ ..everybody !! Read Full article here .
via [ PaulGraham.com ]