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15 Oct 09
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I'm glad Microsoft is dead. They were like Nero or
Commodus—evil
in the way only inherited power can make you.
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28 Aug 09
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everyone can see the
desktop is over. It now seems inevitable that applications will
live on the web—not just email, but everything, right up to
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The third cause of Microsoft's death was broadband Internet. Anyone
who cares can have fast Internet access
now. And the bigger the pipe to the server, the less you need the
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All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for
grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the
desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses
Microsoft's anyway.
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Craig RettigNo one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore. They still make a lot of money—so does IBM, for that matter. But they're not dangerous.
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16 Dec 07
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17 Nov 07
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- Buy all the good "Web 2.0" startups. They could get substantially
all of them for less than they'd have to pay for Facebook. - Put them all in a building in Silicon Valley, surrounded by
lead shielding to protect them from any contact with Redmond.
The surprising fact is, brilliant hackers—dangero
usly brilliant
hackers—can be had very cheaply, by the standards of a
company as rich as Microsoft. They can't
hire smart people anymore,
but they could buy as many as they wanted for only an order of magnitude
more. So if they wanted to be a contender
again, this is how they could do it: - Buy all the good "Web 2.0" startups. They could get substantially
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I'm glad Microsoft is dead. They were like Nero or
Commodus—evil
in the way only inherited power can make you. Because remember,
the Microsoft monopoly didn't begin with Microsoft. They got it
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everyone can see the
desktop is over. It now seems inevitable that applications will
live on the web—not just email, but everything, right up to
Photoshop. Even Microsoft sees that now. -
We invite Yahoo and Google and some other
Internet companies, but we've never bothered to invite Microsoft.
Nor has anyone there ever even sent us an email. They're in a
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No one is even afraid of
Microsoft anymore. They still make a lot of money—so does IBM,
for that matter. But they're not dangerous.
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19 Apr 07
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Windows is for
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OS X, Apple has come back from the dead
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the bigger the pipe to the server, the less you need the
desktop. -
broadband Internet
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The most obvious is Google
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Google
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What killed them? Four things,
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they were dead by 2005
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But it's gone now. I can sense that. No one is even afraid of
Microsoft anymore. They still make a lot of money—so does IBM,
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Microsoft cast
a shadow over the software world for almost 20 years
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the
desktop is over
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09 Apr 07
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M GPaul Graham pronounces Microsoft irrelevant.
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08 Apr 07
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brian rodneyMicrosoft's biggest weakness is that they still don't realize how much they suck. They still think they can write software in house. Maybe they can, by the standards of the desktop world. But that world ended a few years ago.
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The last nail in the coffin came, of all places, from Apple. Thanks to OS X, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology. [2] Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s.
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The last nail in the coffin came, of all places, from Apple. Thanks to OS X, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology. [2] Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s.
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A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of Microsoft.
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A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking
to a young startup founder about how Google was different from
Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by
their fear of Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves
as a "media company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked
at his face and realized he didn't understand. It was as if I'd
told him how much girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid
80s. Barry who?
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07 Apr 07
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A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face and realized he didn't understand. It was as if I'd told him how much girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 80s. Barry who?
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A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face and realized he didn't understand. It was as if I'd told him how much girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 80s. Barry who?
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