The Microsoft Invincibility Myth

[kelly]

Good read.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/C91C...840AC8A317.html

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/Home.html

[gunug]

I read your topic and thought it said Microsoft Invisibility Myth; I've had my eyes checked but I guess I'll need to get my whimsey checked as well!  

Later: It would be nice if a more specific definition of "monopoly" could keep them from buying up every useful utility/program:

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/07/18/1545258.shtml

[RHPConsult]

So, is this just more myth-building?  Err sumthin'? Read and Wonder

Is it a reasonable assumption that these were quite easy to write because the converse of each has been their practice since the beginning?

     

[krissel]

Yup, just take out the we 'will' and put in 'won't' and you have the real MicroSoft mission statement.


Read the whole speech HERE

Snipits:

QUOTE

We've seen over the last five years steady improvements, for example, to the audio and video playback capabilities in Windows, for example, in Windows Media Player. And the marketplace and consumers have benefitted from that. But at the same time, we've clearly seen phenomenal success by others, perhaps most particularly by Apple in its iPod and its associated iTunes software, most of which runs on Windows.

I think that's a good example of where we've been able to see advanced, enhanced innovation and integration in Windows benefitting consumers and enhanced, advanced competition with new products and new successes by competitors as well.

QUOTE

Interoperability is an important objective and an important commitment for us as a company and for us as an industry. So our tenth tenet relates to protocols. We committed legally that we will remain obligated to license until the fall of 2009 under the consent decree and its extension the client server communications protocols in the Windows desktop operating system, and we commit here, as we have said previously, to continue this practice even after that obligation expires as a matter of law in 2009.

We shall see...