Microsoft is Dead
I Come Not to Praise Microsoft…
Paul Graham thinks that Microsoft is dead, and he gives four reasons why.
- Widespread availability of broadband, which fueled…
- The emergence of Google, which led to…
- The rise of online applications and the waning importance of desktop software, coinciding with…
- Apple’s rise from the grave
“No one who cares about computers uses Microsoft’s anyway.”
The last is perhaps one of the most interesting. Not only is Apple thrashing Microsoft in the delivery of media — do you know anyone who paid for a Zune? — but they’re also shipping computers that run on the same family of technology that fuel the web. Microsoft doesn’t. As a result, anyone who works the web has to go out of their way to develop web apps on a Microsoft machine. By contrast, almost anything you can load on a Unix or Linux based web server can run with little or no modification on even the puniest of Apple systems running OS X. Increasingly, anyone who works on computers, as opposed to working merely with computers, has been using Apple.
Ding, dong, the witch is dead. At least, it seems that way.
