Comments on: ‘Windows’ of opportunity closing. Gartner thinks Microsoft OS is collapsing

By: Developeři. Developeři! Kde se pasou…

Developeři. Developeři! Kde se pasou… — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:38:25 +0000

[...] se tak dva měsíce stará zpráva od průzkumné společnosti Gartner, která předpovídá brzký zánik dominace Windows [...]

By: MarkKachina

MarkKachina — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:42:32 +0000

I’ve been hearing this same line of wishful thinking since 1995. Web apps are good for some things, and they stink for others. Microsoft Outlook still runs circles around any Webmail system. Google Calendar can’t even put a reminder on your screen, for crying out loud. There’s NO integration among Web apps. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Security is even more of a mystery. Are companies going to store internal documents on Amazon’s cloud? NO, not in the SOX-HIPAA era they aren’t. And Microsoft is doing what it has always done: chase every trend aggressively, and get better all the time. Vista and Office 2007 might not be perfect, but I bet the next revs will be far batter — just as XP was much better than Win2k and WinMe. And you still need an OS to run your browser, and last I checked, most Americans would rather spend $500 on a PC, not $1500 on a Mac. More developers code with .NET than any other platform, even more than most other platforms COMBINED. Has anyone looked at the revenue figures, or do they not matter?

By: Developers, developers, developers ignoring, ignoring, ignoring Vista, Vista Vista » VentureBeat

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:12:53 +0000

[...] This follows a report from a few months ago suggesting that the Windows operating system was on the verge of collapsing. [...]

By: A big curveball: OS X 10.6 “Lynx” to debut on Monday? » VentureBeat

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:08:35 +0000

[...] They are trying to make Microsoft look bad as it continues to struggle with consumers’ Windows Vista concerns. Microsoft has been talking about its next iteration [...]

By: Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Road Show: Affordable surface computing, programming for kids and more » VentureBeat

Fri, 23 May 2008 14:10:15 +0000

[...] one of those times when change is needed — we’re hardly the first to have argued that as more and more computing moves online, Microsoft’s traditional software model is in trouble. Rashid alluded to that himself when he started listing some of the “really bad” events [...]

By: Seattle Ventures!

Seattle Ventures! — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:00:28 +0000

The End of Microsoft?…

Unfortunately, I don’t think it will be that easy. I have a hard time believing that the Redmond software giant hasn’t already put their brightest minds on strategically digging themselves out of this Vista hole that they are currently in….

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:08:55 +0000

I don’t trust cloud storage or banks. If they combine the two we’d have cloud banks.

By: jester

jester — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:42:52 +0000

You know, it totally cracks me up when not a week goes by without news of some catastrophic data compromise that’s screwed up the lives of millions of consumers yet there are still people out there pushing the whole, “Leave all your sensitive information ON OUR SERVERS.” Interestingly, not one of the entities marketing this sort of thing is even offering what’s become standard requirement for remote access in the corporate environment: two-factor, token-based, single use passwords (such as the RSA token). Until somebody gets serious about security, this entire concept is just marketing hype.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:10:46 +0000

Don’t forget linux

By: Gartner: “Windows” of opportunity is closing « Bob Morris: Investing, tech, coffee.

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:14:18 +0000

[...] of opportunity is closing April 11, 2008 — Bob Morris The Borg is no more, says Gartner. The Microsoft juggernaut of operating system hegemony is collapsing. Slow adoption of Vista is but [...]

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:55:42 +0000

Irony of ironies, before dumping my PC and moving to the Mac, I wrote a blog post comparing Microsoft to the fall of communism; namely, that an inefficient system was collapsing under the weight of an enormous legacy, and that entropy awaits.

Here is link to full post if interested:

http://thenetworkgarden.com/weblog/2007/03/microsoft_and_t.html

Cheers,

Mark