LOL
Microsoft and Innovation in the same sentence….

Seriously though, MS has a history of cranking out products, each worse than the last, then when the industry is starting to say that they are finally over the hill they drop an XP or Server 2003 that is quite good. Then they live off of that for another half decade. Though W7 is just Vista with improvements (I think of it as Vista SP3) I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a hit. MS is due to knock one out of the park.

I’d be a little careful about statements like this. Does anyone remember Windows 98 and ME? Both of them were total pieces of garbage as operating systems. Then came XP which, in all honesty, was a solid operating system. I spent about 4 years doing development work on that platform and had extremely few problems (I now do mostly Open Source work from my Mac which is also very, very stable).

So before we all celebrate the death of Microsoft, let’s remember that everyone was making these same comments 10 years ago and it got MS motivated enough to release XP. Despite what people on here seems to think, MS is not a company full of morons. There are some very sharp people dealing with problems that Apple never has to worry about: Like running on a multitude of different hardware platforms, orders of magnitude more people trying to hack them, and enterprise level legacy users that prevent them from just throwing things out and starting over (which is what Apple did with its first version of OS X).

Vista was garbage. Win 7, like the last version of Office, will not be and 2-3 years from now the vast majority of users will probably be running it and Microsoft’s financials are going to look stellar again.

The first Apple products were very limited in terms of performance, options, software and highly proprietary. At that time the PC (with Microsoft OS) ruled because you could use the command line interface (much faster for experienced users) and the variety of options/software/peripherals from vendors was huge.

We now enjoy the wide variety of high-quality Mac products thanks to Apple’s focus to gain market share from Microsoft. I have a PC for absolute compatibility with customers and an iMac for myself. The iMac experience is outstanding, but I wonder… what would it be like now if Microsoft hadn’t come along?

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Most Windows users have probably put-off buying anything for the last year because the KNEW Windows 7 was coming and they wanted nothing to do with Vista. I suspect the next quarter’s numbers may look a bit brighter for the turd-burglars in Redmond.

That being said, any sort of “slide” in revenues/sales for MS is a good thing for the entire industry, IMO. They’ve had it too good for too long, and I hope Apple can gain some big ground.

Yahoo sat on their duff for too long as well, and look what happened. Someone finally came along and kicked them in the crotch. They’ve spent millions upon millions ever since trying to get back in the game and have had one failure after another. Here’s hoping that MS uses Yahoo as a business model!

Well, ‘not much good’ was true, all along, when results were good. The difference is that people have now seen it — once they had Microsoft’s incompetence so wonderfully demonstrated by Vista, and Microsoft’s arrogance so wonderfully illuminated by them even daring to sell such a pile of rubbish and thinking everyone would just swallow it.

They’re results are bad because they’re not much good at what they do.