{"id":778,"date":"2009-07-31T12:13:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T02:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2009-07-31T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T02:13:24","slug":"aside-the-decline-of-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/07\/31\/aside-the-decline-of-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside \u2013 The decline of Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being a Mac user, a lot of people expect me to loathe everything Microsoft. Also, having come from a Unix background, equally as many people expect me to loathe everything Microsoft.\u00a0I’ll be honest – I have no great fondness for them, but I’m also practical enough to recognise that the chances of them falling over in a heap at any point are microscopically small. I also wouldn’t wish it on them. Instead, what I hope is that they eventually learn cooperative engagement in the marketplace.<\/p>\n

To me, Microsoft has been over the last few years suffering the sort of decline that comes not from a larger competitor taking it on, but what I describe as “death by a thousand mosquito bites”. No one single failing of theirs, and no one single competitor of theirs, is causing them catastrophic harm; however, the combination of their failings, and their competitors, is actually starting to dig in.<\/p>\n

Over at Daring Fireball, John Gruber has one of his typically insightful commentaries on Microsoft’s decline<\/a>. Yes, it’s told from an Apple perspective, but Gruber is one of the leading Apple bloggers these days, so that’s to be expected. If you’re at all interested in a “non-Microsoft” perspective, Gruber’s commentary is worth spending 10 minutes to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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