Microsoft is in a jam

Post #39,285 by Andrew Grygus 5/20/02 1:00:59 PM Reply	Microsoft is in a jam Microsoft's real need for ever accelerating revenue growth is running into a whole bunch of problems all a once: The economy is down and will stay down for a bit, so business holding back on expenditures. The desktop market is saturated and there is no longer any market to take away from competitors, so to increase revenue they must increase prices and license enforcement which angers their customers and reduces trust. The server market is being strongly defended by Unix and Linux. Microsoft expected to dominate this market by now - instead they are fighting to keep their current share. People are no longer upgrading whenever a new version comes out because they know it isn't going to offer anything compelling. Microsoft must force everyone to subscription, which angers their customers and reduces trust. Microsoft is trying to "buy in" to a huge market that's well defended, but that drains money they need to show revenue growth. Ongoing antitrust action continues to tarnish Microsoft's public image and reduce trust. Microsoft is trying every angle they can think of to take other people's profits, further reducing trust. To win in new markets Microsoft need the trust of other companies, but nobody trusts Microsoft any more - at all. My Services is a major case in point, and now on-line gaming. Microsoft is a company looking a very severe crisis in the eye. They've been forced to turn down the screws before they were ready, and now face open rebellion by both customers and "partners" while there are still options avalable to them. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #39,342 by Ashton 5/20/02 8:44:30 PM Reply	I wish that many of your summaries were more widely disseminated (maybe they are?) I've sent a few business types to aax.net in the past - they could understand you! while at technical <novice level. So it isn't just I who believes that yours could be a valuable (drop in that bucket) counter to the spin and BS purchased everywhere. Not that I imagine self smart enough to suggest "what you Ought to do" with your time - and maybe you've deduced that the unravelling, when it comes -- will be characteristically self-inflicted anyway [??] But a lot of the critics with 'columns' lack both your experience in how stuff Really works and often enough - they don't write as well either IMhO. If your take is correct, I can't think of a better encrypted-key to the dark cavern where a M$ Heart would have been, than - an irreversibly negative consensus that ... they don't know shit about security AND they'd sell their own grandmother's name to a spammer, and bill her for the Service after disabling her XP and scheduling her for an audit: on Mother's day. How could more people get chance to see some $%@#&^ Rebuttals Out There ??? (A question asked by legions of flacks with something to sell. I know :( Ashton Knowledge is power. D'Oh. But as President [link\|http://www.filmsite.org/drst.html\|Merkin Muffley] shouts to the tippling Soviet ambassador.. after the existence of the Doomsday Device\ufffd has been revealed, *What &$%& use is a Doomsday Device IF NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT IT !?!** Y'know? Gawd I Miss Peter Sellers... and Alec Guinness and .. .. the tooth fairy.
Post #39,345 by tuberculosis 5/20/02 8:59:05 PM 8/21/07 6:42:09 AM Reply	Dead on Wonderful way of saying "What goes around comes around". After years of scarfing their neighbors lunches, suddenly MS finds itself not so popular at the dinner table. Community censure is just what they've earned. The average hunter gatherer works 20 hours a week. The average farmer works 40 hours a week. The average programmer works 60 hours a week. What the hell are we thinking? Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:42:09 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #39,362 by ben_tilly 5/21/02 12:16:05 AM Reply	I hope you are right And suspect you are. If so, it will be interesting when the public as a whole notices the fact that the shift has happened and stops factoring, "But everyone does it" into their thinking. Cheers, Ben "... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything." --Richard Feynman

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