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Arrogance, Thy Name Is Microsoft | |
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| Time: 10:03 EST/15:03 GMT | News Source: Business Week Online | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft has long been the big grizzly of the software industry, lacerating any competitors who dared to cross its path. But now it has become ensnared in a trap of its own making. And in its efforts to escape, it may end up gnawing off its own foot. That could create the first real opportunity in 15 years for Apple to take share in the corporate market. Microsoft's trap was to let itself get hooked on mediocrity. Rather than invent exciting new products, the company focused on selling incremental improvements of its flagship Office suite every two or three years. But users have wised up. Increasingly, they're not willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a package of small changes (see BW Online, 8/7/02, "Smile When You Say That, Microsoft"). Recent industry surveys show that users now only upgrade software such as Office when they buy a new computer, sales of which have slowed sharply in the past two years. | ||
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| #1 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 8/14/2002 10:46:59 AM |
| Sales of new computers have slowed, but the average on hardware rotation is still about 4 years--which is just about identical to the turn-over time for Office upgrades. So, if people are upgrading Office only when they buy a new computer as they say here, what has changed??? |
| #2 By 8883 (64.253.108.243) at 8/14/2002 11:28:52 AM |
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The author's just another moronic MACDrone obsessed with Microsoft. Product Activation began this month? The poor loser probably goes to sleep and wakes up thinking about how evil Microsoft is and how it's so unfair that MACs only have 2.4% market share -- but thanks to Steve Jobs, that's about to go up any minute now! Yay!
How sad. |
| #3 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 8/14/2002 3:06:20 PM |
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I'm wondering what Windows Product Activation has to do with this statement - "But they also let the company monitor who has been good and who has been bad."
I perhaps agree with this fellow's premise - that Microsoft has begun to sit on its laurels and stop pushing the technology envelope. Then again, mabye he is dead wrong. .NET, DRM, Palladium, Media Servcies, Messaging, TrustworthyComputing, Unified File System, etc. No, it doesn't really seam that Microsoft has stalled in its efforts to innovate. #3 You are dead on. Does Apple have a competing product to Microsoft Office? I'm not saying that no competing products exist, but has Apple written one of them? Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't see many server products available for Apple servers - email, database, etc. I can't see that Apple servers are going to replace Windows servers when there aren't competing server products for Apple servers. Also, what good does it do in a Windws vs. Apple article to contrast Apple servers and IBM mainframes. Wouldn't it be more logical to contrast Apple servers to Windows servers? |
| #4 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 8/14/2002 3:18:01 PM |
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While I'm ranting, how 'bout a few more thoughts. "Arrogance, they name is Microsoft"? Hmm, perhaps "Arrogance, thy name is AOLTW/Sun/Oracle/Apple" would be equally appropriate.
AOLTW has hurt its customers by not opening its IM technologies. Sun and Oracle continue to charge rediculously too much for their hardware/software offerings. Sun adds insult to injury by not standardizing the "open" Java platform. Apple charges for a service pack to an OS, the second in about a year since the OS was released. Apple continues to overcharge for its machines in relation to equivalently powerful PCs. Apple has the most expensive MP3 player on the market. Apple has announced that it will charge for promised free forever services. Apple has yet to sufficiently adapt itself to the masses, to achieve even a 10% market share. Considering Apple is called the innovator of the industry, one would think they would have a commanding market share in mainstream markets - corporate and consumer. |
| #5 By 8589 (65.100.121.245) at 8/14/2002 3:41:18 PM |
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Poor Charles Haddad, not only is he a loser, but he is butt ugly too.
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| #6 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 8/14/2002 5:29:15 PM |
| I actually agree with several of his points. I don't much agree with the delivery and the Apple references are non-sequitor. |
| #7 By 415 (68.54.10.120) at 8/15/2002 1:52:47 AM |
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Arrogance kicks ass!
,.|.. ..|., Humility! |
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