On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> wrote: > An interesting editorial in the New York Times about the decline of > Microsoft. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?th&emc=th -------------------
>From the middle "Not everything that has gone wrong at Microsoft is due to internecine warfare. Part of the problem is a historic preference to develop (highly profitable) software without undertaking (highly risky) hardware. This made economic sense when the company was founded in 1975, but now makes it far more difficult to create tightly integrated, beautifully designed products like an iPhone or TiVo. And, yes, part of the problem has been an understandable caution in the wake of the antitrust settlement. Timing has also been poor — too soon on Web TV, too late on iPods." I see this as the #1 issue that M$ has to overcome. They have done so poorly in the mp3 player market in units sold. The units are real good, I own 1 and find the radio the killer piece that Apple can't figure out how to SELL YOU content for in iTunes yet. I foresee Apple, as being the control freak they are, getting overshadowed by Google with respect to to new ideas. I don't see M$ changing until there is a semi massive retirement and then the middle line management gets to take on new roles, decisions etc. M$ will evolve just as IBM did. IBM use to be all about their iron, and now they are about service that can run on any iron. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
