subject Re: 2nd anniversary of "Microsoft is Dead" essay - new factors to consider?
A lot of people misunderstood that essay, and asked how I could
claim a company making so much money was dead. Obviously I didn't
mean Microsoft was bankrupt. What I meant was that they were no
longer a factor one had to consider when doing something in technology.
That's still true today. The big stories in the 2 years since have
been AWS and iPhone apps. Microsoft's mindshare has continued to
slowly erode.
Thanks to AWS, someone starting a startup today thinks more about
Amazon than Microsoft. An online retailer! It would have seemed
almost impossible to people in 1999 that anyone would be saying
that in 2009.
