It points out that Microsoft is still a market leader in a lot of markets (including web-markets such as IM and email), they are earning lots of money in a bad economy and they are known to be excellent business people (some of the best in the market)... I think it's very naive to label one of the biggest companies in the IT industry as dead in any foreseeable future.
Btw. I also point out statical rates: Microsoft shares in IM, web-email, console market, developer tools market, web-server market etc. are all growing and aren't declining.
"I also point out statical rates: Microsoft shares in IM, web-email, console market, developer tools market, web-server market etc. are all growing and aren't declining."
Depends on how you measure it. For instance, apparently in terms of monthly uniques hotmail is declining and will be overtaken by gmail this year:
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Some stats about Microsoft's current market position:
* Microsoft holds almost 90% of the operating system market share http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-shar...
* MSN Messnger is the most popular IM client in the world, 60% market share http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2006/04/3557.ars
* Internet Explorer is still the most used browser, 65%+ market share http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qp...
* Microsoft Office is still the most used Office suite (95%+ market share?)
* XBox is selling great and they are taking a market leader position http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jan09/01-05XBo...
* Hotmail is the most used web-email with 250 million users+ (GMail does not have 100 million yet) http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statist...
* Microsoft are a big player in web-backend market. IIS and ASP are catching up with Apache http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/04/06/april_2009_web_...
* .Net has the largest market share amongst developers http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=.net%2C+java%2C+c%23%2C+ru...
* Even in one of the biggest financial crisis, Microsoft still makes shit loads of money (almost $15 billion in revenue for Q1 2009) http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/23/microsoft-rev...
Taken from http://amix.dk/blog/viewEntry/19446
The article is about the decline of MS. Statistical points that aren't rates or aren't compared to past statistical points are meaningless.
It points out that Microsoft is still a market leader in a lot of markets (including web-markets such as IM and email), they are earning lots of money in a bad economy and they are known to be excellent business people (some of the best in the market)... I think it's very naive to label one of the biggest companies in the IT industry as dead in any foreseeable future.
Btw. I also point out statical rates: Microsoft shares in IM, web-email, console market, developer tools market, web-server market etc. are all growing and aren't declining.
"I also point out statical rates: Microsoft shares in IM, web-email, console market, developer tools market, web-server market etc. are all growing and aren't declining."
Depends on how you measure it. For instance, apparently in terms of monthly uniques hotmail is declining and will be overtaken by gmail this year:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArti...
web-email? Growing in share? wow.. Any links for that?
And does dev-tools consist of the paid market - or does it compete with free/oss/notepad?
I still like PG's clarification of "Dead" - basically that they're no longer growing / pushing the boundary.
My inference from the article is that Microsoft is at the top of the software industry like GM used to be the top of the automotive industry. ;)
more does not mean better. it takes quality to make quality.
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Go hug your mother and stop brownnosing M$