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Re: (OT) The giant steps down before the crash
de John Jay Smith 06/16/2006 01:07
thanks for that info....
very interesting stuff
"Caesar Romano" <Spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:rs05921h82sdqf7q8qlmin10bbuos0t540@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:59:34 +0100, hummingbird
> <OPRBMDQMZNLV@spammotel.com> wrote Re Re: (OT) The giant steps down
> before the crash:
>
>>On 16 Jun 2006 02:58:56 +0200 'John Jay Smith'
>>posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
>>
>>>I have stated before what I think the future will be for Microsoft with
>>>vista and office 2007 ....
>>>They are badly designed abominations... and it seems that Gates is
>>>getting
>>>out of the boat before it sinks...
>>>
>>>http://news.com.com/Gates+stepping+down+from+full-time+Microsoft+role/2100-1014_3-6084396.html?tag=nl.e498
>>
>>hhmm. I wonder if there's data available to show that the downfall
>>of a software company begins when its products become bloatware?
>
> Addressing the downfall of a software (and hardware) company, read two
> books:
>
> Hard Drive : Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
> (Paperback)
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887306292/qid=1150452707/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-6270183-6177655?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
>
> and
>
> Big Blues : The Unmaking of IBM (Hardcover)
> by Paul Carroll
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517591979/qid=1150452783/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-6270183-6177655?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
>
> Two excellent and very books that tell the story from two perspectives
> of the rise of MS and the fall of IBM (although IBM is certainly not
> gone by any stretch).
>
> What's really interesting is how MS was drawn into the OS business
> almost against their will by happenstance. (The quy (??Kendrick??) who
> owned CPM didn't want to sign the onerous IBM non-disclosure
> agreement. IBM went to MS, MS says "..no, we only do BASIC here.." and
> sends IBM back to the CPM guy who still won't sign the non-disclosure
> agreement. So IBM goes back to MS and brow-beats them into doing an
> OS.
>
> Now here's where Gates is brilliant: Instead of wanting exhorbant
> royalties on the new OS, which is what IBM expected MS to try to rip
> IBM off on, Gates wants very minimal royalties BUT wants the
> non-IBM-hardware (i.e. the "PC-compatible" market) rights to whatever
> OS is developed. IBM is thrilled by this because at the time there
> *was NO PC-compatible market* and IBM never thought there would be
> one.
> --
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