Re:The Bentonville Mafia--How to fix Microsoft
by jacquesm on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @09:13AM
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The previous installments in this 'series' were so far off the mark that I can't even honestly say I'm disappointed by this one.
I fully agree with the third point you are making here, microsoft - even today - does not get the web, even though plenty of people are using microsoft products to access the web.
They did buy hotmail, which was at the time quite ahead of the game, but then they fell by the wayside and when google launched gmail I think it was more or less game over for hotmail, integrating it into msn has only further degraded it (msn being mostly synonymous with failure).
I think - and at some level I hope - that the web is the end of microsoft, I'd be even happier if the web would be the end of large corporations being in control of critical components of our lives but I think we're still an iteration or two (and maybe one full fledged disaster) away from that.
I fully agree with the third point you are making here, microsoft - even today - does not get the web, even though plenty of people are using microsoft products to access the web.
They did buy hotmail, which was at the time quite ahead of the game, but then they fell by the wayside and when google launched gmail I think it was more or less game over for hotmail, integrating it into msn has only further degraded it (msn being mostly synonymous with failure).
I think - and at some level I hope - that the web is the end of microsoft, I'd be even happier if the web would be the end of large corporations being in control of critical components of our lives but I think we're still an iteration or two (and maybe one full fledged disaster) away from that.