> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 1:23 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Is "Microsoft" Dead?
>
> A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking
> to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo.
> I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of
> Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media
> company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face
> and realized he didn't understand.
>
> When did Microsoft die, and of what?
>
> http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
It's an interesting read but it seems really myopic... like he's surrounded
himself by people like himself and he's assuming that's a representation of
the world at large.
Comments like "I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running
Windows" or "no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft's [software]"
just seem to scream that this guy isn't out with the rest of us. It's like
geek versions of Ann Coulter's quotes ("There are some bad Republicans but
no good Democrats" or "[Liberals] are either traitors or idiots" For
example). It's just hard to take him at all seriously when he's obviously
not even remotely objective.
I mean if you start off with a definition of "people who care" as "people
who don't use MS software" then how could you NOT come to his conclusions.
We can say "people that care about TV don't watch 'American Idol'" and that
I don't know anybody that watches it. Because of that we say American Idol
is "dead"... but what the hell does that mean?
In the end I guess that's my biggest confusion: what he's saying? He says
that MS is "dead" because it's not "dangerous" anymore but he doesn't define
either. He still says that MS is still huge and making money hand over fist
and probably will continue to do so.
Jeeze... if that's death, bring on my funeral. ;^)
Jim Davis
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