Comments on: Does Bob Muglia’s Departure Spell Doom for Windows Azure? http://gigaom.com/2011/01/10/does-bob-muglias-departure-spell-doom-for-windows-azure/ Sat, 25 May 2013 19:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steve F http://gigaom.com/2011/01/10/does-bob-muglias-departure-spell-doom-for-windows-azure/#comment-575998 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:24:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=285075#comment-575998 Bill Gates fear was always that what happened to DEC could happen to Microsoft and this seems to prove it. DEC was never willing to sacrifice it’s VAX/VMS installed base and associated margins for any of it’s newer and more innovative technologies and the innovative people got frustrated and left to places like Microsoft while those that liked things as they were stayed for re-marketing efforts like open-VMS and waited for their 20 year retrenchment package.

Now people who want to innovate go to Google.

]]> By: Innovation Kills Monopolies Faster Than Governments Can: Tech News and Analysis « http://gigaom.com/2011/01/10/does-bob-muglias-departure-spell-doom-for-windows-azure/#comment-573546 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:43:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=285075#comment-573546 [...] in desktop operating systems — but it’s under fire from significant forces such as cloud computing, virtual appliances and the rise of mobile computing. The authors note that “there is little [...]

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