Actually its been on the downslope for at least 20 years. I remember when NT was announced people told me MS was dead.
And then with Turbo Pascal and Delphi and Borland C++ the MS tools stack was dead. And so with Java.
In circa 1999 I'd ask college grads about the VB type system... not a single one knew a thing about it.
In 2003 we built a distributed ap on .Net and we were told that it was foolish, we should use CORBA.
There was a time when the LAMP stack was going to kill MS.
There's always a circle that thinks MS is dead. And to them it is. Yet I think they'll be more than fine for the forseeable future -- at least as well as any other stack.
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Actually its been on the downslope for at least 20 years. I remember when NT was announced people told me MS was dead.
And then with Turbo Pascal and Delphi and Borland C++ the MS tools stack was dead. And so with Java.
In circa 1999 I'd ask college grads about the VB type system... not a single one knew a thing about it.
In 2003 we built a distributed ap on .Net and we were told that it was foolish, we should use CORBA.
There was a time when the LAMP stack was going to kill MS.
There's always a circle that thinks MS is dead. And to them it is. Yet I think they'll be more than fine for the forseeable future -- at least as well as any other stack.