Why Microsoft’s reorganization closes the books on an era of computing

Re:Why Microsoft’s reorganization closes the books on an era... by kkowalczyk on Sunday July 14, 2013 @07:48PM (#6042776)

You picked one example (Apple) that supports your thesis (technology is cyclical).

It is, however, an exception to the rule.

Computer industry is littered with bodies of slain giants: Borland, Sybase, Lotus, Wordstar, Personal Software (VisiCalc) etc. The rest are companies that stabilized into a success (Oracle, eBay, Microsoft).

It's exceedingly rare to make a come back (IBM, Apple are 2 examples I can think of).

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Re:Why Microsoft’s reorganization closes the books on an era... by bickfordb on Sunday July 14, 2013 @08:13PM (#6042871)

Also, NeXT essentially acquired Apple. The current Apple barely resembles the early 90's / pre-Jobs company

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Re:Why Microsoft’s reorganization closes the books on an era... by apapli on Sunday July 14, 2013 @08:59PM (#6043033)

Would we really consider IBM as a come back? From a B2B and patent revenues perspective I concede this could be a possibility, but from a B2C perspective, surely that ship has already sailed?

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Re:Why Microsoft’s reorganization closes the books on an era... by whatusername on Monday July 15, 2013 @01:02AM (#6043799)

Remember that IBM Posted an 8 Billion Dollar loss in 1992. It was on the verge of being broken up. To go from there to a ~$212B Company with Revenues of $104B and Income before tax of $21B. --> I think IBM still counts as one of the biggest corporate turn-arounds in history.

IBM was never any good at B2C. Getting back to B2B played to it's strengths.

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