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

MarkKachina — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:42:32 -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?

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

Neil Anderson — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:08:55 -0000

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

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

jester — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:42:52 -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.

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

anon — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:10:46 -0000

Don't forget linux

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

hypermark — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:55:42 -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...

Cheers,

Mark