Interesting opinion about how Microsoft's influence in the software world is waning. The hottest new world right now and possibly in the future is mobile computing - mobiles and tablets, and Microsoft is not there at the top in either of them. The result?
http://minimalmac.com/post/17758177061/microsofts-biggest-miss > Microsoft for many years had convinced the world that, in order to > get “real work” done, you needed Office. > > Then, she explained, the iPhone came. There was no Office. People got > things done. Then the iPad came. There was no Office. People got > things done. Android came. People got things done. All of those things > that they, just a couple of years ago, were convinced they needed > Office to do. They got them done without it. And thus, the truth was > revealed. > > Like the curtain finally falling from the Wizard of Oz to find just a > small, frail, man pretending to be far more powerful and relevant than > he really was. Microsoft’s biggest miss was allowing the world to > finally see the truth behind the big lie — they were not needed to get > real work done. Or anything done, really. > > And that will be what ultimately kills them. Of course, to be fair, the argument is slightly less relevant in the corporate space, but the trend is unmistakable. - Sandip _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
