Microsoft is Dead

Re:Microsoft is Dead by randallsquared on Friday April 06, 2007 @08:17PM (#9781)

Microsoft is still an enormously profitable and powerful company in the real world, and you should be more careful about drawing conclusions based on what a few people think in your insular little "Web 2.0" bubble.

More seriously, I mostly do business right now with small businesses (2-8 people), and some stupidly high proportion of these businesses run totally on Windows. When they go to buy the computer(s) they need, it never even occurs to them that there is any choice about whether to buy Windows, because Windows is just what programs run in. This kind of customer laughs ruefully along with the Apple commercials they see on TV, but I don't think it ever crosses their mind that they could actually buy a Mac for their business, much less a Linux box.

Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Exchange are the core software apps of 90+% of small businesses.

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Re:Microsoft is Dead by jonhendry on Sunday April 08, 2007 @03:01PM (#10485)

"Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Exchange are the core software apps of 90+% of small businesses."

You forgot the CPU-sucking antivirus apps they need to run that still can't guarantee that the business won't be brought to a standstill by a worm.

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Re:Microsoft is Dead by randallsquared on Monday April 09, 2007 @02:32PM (#10905)

Well, there is that. I spend rather more time gloating about my Macs than I should, I suppose, and much of the gloating is about antivirus suckage for the Windows boxes. :)

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Re:Microsoft is Dead by zach on Friday April 06, 2007 @11:46PM (#9874)

Come on, we're not talking about the homefront here, we're talking about the frontier. This is the startup news site; we're not here to talk about the current industry standard.

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Re:Microsoft is Dead by randallsquared on Saturday April 07, 2007 @12:03AM (#9884)

Well, the first part of my comment was a joke, and the second part was only asserting that Microsoft wasn't going to go away soon, because they're a de facto standard.

I'm not saying that I worry about them for my own projects, or that you should for yours. :)

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Re:Microsoft is Dead by zach on Saturday April 07, 2007 @12:08AM (#9886)

My apologies. I didn't get that "more seriously" indicated that the first part was completely tongue-in-cheek.

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Re:Microsoft is Dead by randallsquared on Saturday April 07, 2007 @11:52AM (#10064)

Oh, no problem. I thought that more people would notice that it's lifted directly from the article. On the other hand, I guess it's quite possible that it isn't funny. :)

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