“Microsoft is in deep trouble, their two main product lines are failing, and the blame game is intensifying,” Charlie Demerjian writes for SemiAccurate. “Steve Sinofsky gets the blame this time for the failure of Windows 8, but the real problem is the patterns that are so clearly illustrated by these actions.”
“Microsoft is largely irrelevant to computing of late, the only markets they still play in are evaporating with stunning rapidity,” Demerjian writes. “Their product lines have stagnated, creating customer lock in is prioritized over creating customer value, and the supply chain is controlled by an iron fisted monopoly. Any attempt at innovation with a Windows PC has been shut out for over a decade, woe betide anyone who tried to buck that trend.”
Demerjian writes, “In the end, Windows advanced only to the point of undercutting any competition, and even then to the minimum extent possible. The rules in Redmond were, "Do not change anything unless it is to crush someone doing something innovative". They didn't unless they did, and it worked. And the market stagnated... In such a situation, a company has two choices, both of which are quite stark. They can radically change their ways or they can wither and die. Before you point to Windows 8 and say, ‘But they are changing and innovating,’ hold off a moment, it isn't what you think... Even if they wanted to, they are culturally far beyond the point of being able to. What was a slow bleed of marketshare is now gushing, and management is clueless, intransigent, and myopic. Game over, the thrashing will continue for a bit, but it won't change the outcome. Microsoft has failed.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: A toast! To Monkey Boy, for as long as it takes!
Our initial impression is that Microsoft, in trying to cram everything into Windows 8 in an attempt to be all things to all devices, will end up with an OS that's a jack of all trades and a master of none (which, after all, ought to be Microsoft's company motto)... We simply do not see the world clamoring for the UI of an iPod also-ran now ported to an iPhone wannabe that nobody's buying to be blown up onto a PC display.
From what we've seen so far, Windows 8 strikes us as an unsavory combination of Windows Weight plus Windows Wait.
Not to mention that probably no one on earth knows how much or what kinds of residual legacy spaghetti code roils underneath it all (shudder)... No matter what, if Microsoft's going to ask Windows sufferers to "learn a whole new computer" (and that's exactly how they'll look at it, regardless of how Microsoft pitches it), millions will simply say, "Time to get a Mac to match my iPod, iPhone, and iPad!"
As if they needed it: More good news for Apple. – MacDailyNews Take, June 6, 2011
As we have always said, even as many short-sightedly waved (and continue to wave) the white flag, the war is not over. And, yes, we shall prevail... No company is invincible. Not even Microsoft. – MacDailyNews Take, January 10, 2005
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "BTL" for the heads up.]
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