Comments on: Can Microsoft recover its super powers? Doubts persist

By: Deanna Glaze

Deanna Glaze — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:44:52 +0000

It isn’t my job to explain or make excuses for Microsoft. Yeah, they’ve had failures and so has Google and so has Apple…I suspect brand perception has a great deal to do with why Win7 phone (who’s UI is so much more refined than iPhone, IMHO) has not done better. They have made some interesting shifts and I’m curious to see if and how they tie it all together.

By: Harald Engels

Harald Engels — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:31:57 +0000

I think this is nonsense. If you want to succeed you have to fight on all fronts. Microsoft is just not longer good enough, made many wrong decisions and is definitively too slow for the IT market in the 21st century. The corporate culture is the problem. A fish stinks from the head down.

By: vrm

vrm — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:22:46 +0000

microsoft had a great run, esp for a tech co. totally lacking in ideas and talent. What they lacked, they more than made up for with aggressive marketing and disregard for ethics, law and morals. microsoft NEEDS to go away. They stand in the way of innovation and progress.

It pains me to read that there are people who not only believe they were “innovators” but that they are still capable of doing it.

By: pk22901

pk22901 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:42:19 +0000

“In the early PC era it was Lotus, WordPerfect, Ashton-Tate, Novell. And it handled them all.”

Why ‘forget’ Netscape? MS defeated adversaries through the advantage of owning the dominant platform they were built on. (Novell being the exception. MS defeated IBM OS2 in blatant partner killing.) Eventually, the DOJ stopped some of their thuggish behavior, but then, iOS, Java, Android and Linux made it inconsequential.

Today, Windows is NOT your father’s Windows; it’s just one platform among many.

Perhaps MSs special gift in the old days was just not being embarrassed about using Windows to kill off competitors.

Reading the news, MS still has its rape and pillage act in place: Nokia and Yahoo come to mind.

Somehow I think, MS needs to deliver on innovation in a world that gives them one shot, not three. This is a ‘new’ ball game for them.

Could they do it? Maybe, we’ll see. There’s no rush. I think a year from now, we’ll see how strong MS really is.

By: Nadav

Nadav — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:54:56 +0000

Thanks :)

By: Brian Burke

Brian Burke — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:09:46 +0000

These aren’t wars. These are companies selling stuff. Everyone makes this so melodramatic but it’s pretty mundane in reality.

By: sinithwar

sinithwar — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:18:04 +0000

very true very true

By: Shuttle

Shuttle — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:48:23 +0000

Hey Nadav,

Nice reply & well written. I am also not a Microsoft guy & luckily am able to play with all different Operating Systems out there and think you should have written this article ;) Sorry Barb & no offence but this gent knows what he is saying.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:51:01 +0000

Google is all over the place, and Microsoft is all over the place, and they’ve both had a lot of failures. Microsoft has had little success in mobile for 10 years. What’s *your* explanation for that?

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:44:59 +0000

You need to be a lot more specific. They’re all powerful in the enterprise and they’re the main OS in the enterprise. It doesn’t go beyond that.