Microsoft is doomed! (Again.)
- TAGS:earnings, Microsoft, Red Hat
- IT TOPICS:Management, Open Source, Windows
My blogger colleague Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols argues Microsoft is in decline and has been for years.
Indeed, he’s right that many commentators, particularly open source and Macintosh users, have noticed that Microsoft is doomed. It was obvious to one observer in 2007 that Microsoft was destined for destruction. Someone else saw the inevitable collapse of Microsoft in 2002 and an even more prescient writer argued that the company was heading for oblivion back in 1997.
You’d think the company would have seen these predictions and be dead and gone by now. Makes you think those people in Redmond not only make an evil operating system, they can’t read either.
The truth is, people who write about Microsoft’s demise are technology bigots who are practicing wishful thinking as opposed to thoughtful analysis.
Let’s see, Microsoft’s earnings were down 30%, ergo company is on a forced march to economic implosion. After all, they only made a profit in the quarter of $4.44 billion. While Linux giant Red Hat earned $78.7 million for the entire year, an amount that wouldn’t even cover Microsoft’s free-soda tab on its campus.
Linux and Mac devotees need to put their feet on the ground, take their heads out of the clouds and see reality for what it is: Microsoft is here to stay. They need to grasp what IBM’s competitors learned decades ago in the mainframe market. That is, Microsoft is not the competition, it’s the environment.
Live with it.
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