Why It's Not Business As Usual For Microsoft 16
CWmike sends along a Computerworld article that begins "Bill Gates will be leaving Microsoft for good at the end of the month and Microsoft would have you believe that it will be business as usual for Microsoft. I understand they also have a great bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn that they'd like to sell you. Cheap! Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols lays out the reasons it ain't biz as usual. 1) [and there are four more] You can't replace genius. Steve Ballmer is moving into the top slot, but I've met Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates. He's a big, bouncy sales guy. Can't you just see Ballmer selling used cars on a local TV ad spot? Instead of running around a stage shouting: "Developers! Developers!" just visualize him running around a car lot shouting, "Cars! Cars!" I find it far too easy to do just that. This is the man who's going to replace Bill Gates? I don't think so. Besides, he already has a track record as acting head of the company, and it's lousy. Fire Ballmer now, why wait for him to fall on his face?"
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Good points (Score:2, Informative)
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He makes some good points, but he also says that he thinks Firefox 3 will overtake IE8 by the end of the year, which is interesting being that they only project it to hit 20% next month.
It might not overtake it in all regions, but the percentage is already significantly higher than 20% in parts of Europe as far as I remember. So it isn't so far fetched. FF with more users than IE, perhaps not, but "others" making up more than 50% of the world wide browser market... Very possible. According to some statistics, they are within a few percentage points of reaching 50% combined right now.
Perhaps Bill is getting out while the getting is good..
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The Changing Guard (Score:2)
He makes it easy (Score:1, Insightful)
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Now is your chance. Name the OS. Name the big company. Prove that Microsoft didn't own it (or at least show how someone asserting it doesn't just come off as a uninformed Linux fanboy.)
Or did you just read fragments of the truth on a lot of diffferent websites and assemble this notion in your mind?
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You can use google, can you not?
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http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa033099.htm [about.com]
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Steve Ballmer's tenure at the helm of MSoft (Score:1)