>>LK has has slapped you in the face with his glove and spit at your toes
...and that's about all. When are you camp-followers gonna wake up to the world around you?
NT, IE4, Normandy, NetPC and all the recent ballyhooed silver-bullet initiatives Microsoft is shouting about are not going to lead their categories.
Microsoft has been forced become a jack of all trades, reacting on many fronts to others' initiatives. All the bravado you display about Microsoft laying back and waiting for markets to emerge then dominating them is wishful thinking. They will become masters of none. Just when Microsoft reacts, the leaders morph.
Once a company (a small one at that) demonstrated conclusively that the Microsoft platform wasn't essential, Microsoft lost control. Their only choice was an attempt to zero out their competitor with freeware.
Crushing folks like Borland, WordPerfect, Stac, Lotus and Apple was one thing. Sun, HP, IBM, Oracle, Netscape and a renewed Novell is a different arena entirely.
Control is the only thing Microsoft understands. They never had it in the enterprise, and they're losing it on the desktop. Seven billion cash dollars isn't gonna put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Computing has become much bigger than Microsoft. |
