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Microsoft’s top executives have admitted in internal memos that its business is at risk because the company has failed to achieve leadership in key areas such as internet software distribution and VOIP. What do you think has gone wrong, and can Microsoft change to meet the challenge from rivals?
MS built its business on stolen intellectual property and abusive monopoly. Over the past years it's been spending its time patching an inherently vulnerable operating system to defend against viruses. It can't do the real fix - transitioning to a fundamentally sound OS - because that would lead its corporate and government customers to re-procure, which would break the MS monopoly.
In the meantime, the creativity in the industry, as always, is elsewhere. The sooner MS fades away, the better.
A Letter to the Financial Times wrote:
Yes, anyone using Lotus and the new workplace products will understand the yawning gap that has emerged: I recently moved to a business that has implemented Lotus Domino/Notes6 - leaves MSExchange in the dust
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Microsoft has one major problem and it is called DOS. To add a feature or a new program to their Windows operating system they are forced to link it to every line of software in the system. They need all their bright boys and girls to tweak and test to keep Widows working.
Because everything is linked to everything else they are open to viruses and worms that are almost impossible to keep out. Why are they late with the Vista update?
They can only maintain their dominance through monopolistic tactics not through innovation and renewal. Microsoft has become a follower, not an innovator and in the long run will suffer.
All I have to say to the thread title -- Are rivals leaving Microsoft behind? -- is, God, I hope so. Anyone that can't surpass this incompetent, lumbering, bureaucratic joke is in pretty poor shape indeed. What's worse is when competitors have to devote time, money and energy coding for the joke that is Windows because so many people are too dim or too lazy to explore alternatives.
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