Microsoft is Dead 4
Paul Graham says Microsoft is dead.
Microsoft's biggest weakness is that they still don't realize how much they suck.
The comments are as interesting as the article itself.
Paul Graham says Microsoft is dead.
Microsoft's biggest weakness is that they still don't realize how much they suck.
The comments are as interesting as the article itself.
that article is laughable... so Google took lead in a few fields, suddenly MS is dead? far from it.
You clearly haven't read the article.
Who is Paul Graham? One hit wonder who got lucky and struck in rich during the .com boom. Read this for perspective: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblersandblowhards.htm http://www.bileblog.org/?p=56 http://www.bileblog.org/?p=118
Paul makes some great points, but then again he suffers from a bit of techno-solipsism. He assumes that just because he isn't witnessing certain things that they're not happening, or that what he is seeing is the only thing going on. Oddly his observation that he's "surprised when someone is running Windows" reminds me of when I was in middle school.
As a young lad I did a bit of paper, pencil and dice RPG playing. Yes, the classic nerd staple, Dungeons & Dragons. I even branched out into Car Wars, GURPS and Shadowrun. Then I discovered girls and how much fun I could have hurting myself skateboarding so I left all of those late night dice rolling sessions in a box. Oddly enough I felt everyone had done the same. I was actually surprised last year when I came across a D&D book in Borders and later found out my brother-in-law actually still played, at 29. I had just assumed that no one played D&D because I had stopped.
This is exactly what Paul Graham has done. He's taken his narrow view of the world and tried to blanket it as some insight into the tech industry. Problem is the tech industry is just too vast these days. It's no longer confined to who you know in Silicon Valley, it's not just some core group of people. In fact, it's downright pedestrian.
For every dev studio I walk into that's wall to wall LAMP and OSX I'll walk into 5 that are pure .NET, 3 more that are Rails and 10 that use a little bit of everything, with a mix between .NET, Delphi, Rails, PHP, OSX, Vista and the rest.