This week has seen Microsoft and
Google celebrate their birthdays.
Both firms are phenomenally wealthy, and have made their founders
richer than most people could imagine.
What is particularly interesting is Microsoft's abysmal technical track
record, which is not reflected in their vast fortune. The company has
constantly failed to anticipate changes in technology, innovate anything
of merit, or actually execute and deliver anything on time. It has however
benefited from fragmented corporate enemies, the gift by IBM of the PC
operating system monopoly, and relentless aggressive & illegal business
practices.
It's new version of Windows - Vista - is already 2 years late, and missing
most of it's features. In the past Microsoft has been able to survive
it's failure to deliver, but this time GNU/Linux is quietly waiting in the
wings. When Microsoft trips this time, it won't be it's weak and divided
enemies that allow it to escape, this time it could be the coup de grāce.
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