Comments on: 5 Reasons Why Microsoft Has 5 Years To Live http://www.dailytechnobabble.com/2006/06/29/all-good-things/ Technology is the force that drives change in the world today. Resistance is futile. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:29:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: hayri http://www.dailytechnobabble.com/2006/06/29/all-good-things/comment-page-1/#comment-85267 hayri Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:08:28 +0000 http://blog.dailytechnobabble.com/?p=13#comment-85267 etrry etrry

]]> By: Brad http://www.dailytechnobabble.com/2006/06/29/all-good-things/comment-page-1/#comment-76205 Brad Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:14:17 +0000 http://blog.dailytechnobabble.com/?p=13#comment-76205 I agree with Clint Memo. Windows servers and server software is tens of times easier to manage and configure than a linux server is. There are very little linux server managers compared to the number of windows server managers. Sure, people say linux runs better than windows, but I highly disagree. The reason people say this is in order to run a fully stable linux system you need to know what you are doing, VERY WELL. A windows server comes nice and pretty and ready to go, is it ready to go at a powerhouse level? No, but small configurations will fix that. I'm talkinga bout registry settings, undocumented hotfixes... things a windows specialist knows about. I work for a corporation that uses both linux and windows servers, we prefer windows. We only use linux for things required to be linux (our email software runs on linux and we prefer it over windows solutions) SQL Server 2005 is amazing, and 2008 (BUILT IN VIRTUALIZATION!) is even better... and windows 2008 with IIS 7 has insane functionality and scalability. Agh.. to much to say and no one to respond to me.. so I'm done. (btw its 2008 and microsoft is simply just getting bigger and Mac OS Leopard blows compared to Ubuntu.. and ubuntu is even worse) I agree with Clint Memo. Windows servers and server software is tens of times easier to manage and configure than a linux server is. There are very little linux server managers compared to the number of windows server managers. Sure, people say linux runs better than windows, but I highly disagree. The reason people say this is in order to run a fully stable linux system you need to know what you are doing, VERY WELL. A windows server comes nice and pretty and ready to go, is it ready to go at a powerhouse level? No, but small configurations will fix that. I’m talkinga bout registry settings, undocumented hotfixes… things a windows specialist knows about. I work for a corporation that uses both linux and windows servers, we prefer windows. We only use linux for things required to be linux (our email software runs on linux and we prefer it over windows solutions)

SQL Server 2005 is amazing, and 2008 (BUILT IN VIRTUALIZATION!) is even better… and windows 2008 with IIS 7 has insane functionality and scalability.

Agh.. to much to say and no one to respond to me.. so I’m done.

(btw its 2008 and microsoft is simply just getting bigger and Mac OS Leopard blows compared to Ubuntu.. and ubuntu is even worse)

]]> By: Clint Memo http://www.dailytechnobabble.com/2006/06/29/all-good-things/comment-page-1/#comment-366 Clint Memo Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:43:53 +0000 http://blog.dailytechnobabble.com/?p=13#comment-366 Don't bet on it. I've been reading "Microsoft is doomed" articles for 15 years and they have all been wrong. 20 years ago, I was reading "IBM is doomed" articles. Guess what? They are still around and still very relevant. Corporate America runs on MS and corporate America changes veeeery sloooowly. In the meantime, MS will be expanding their product lines, getting their fingers into more pies, just as they have in the past. They are diversifying. When one product no longer keeps the company going, they will have others to do the job. Instead of dying out over the last ten years, they took over the office suite, become a major player in the server market, become a major player in the home console market and taken over the PDA market (moving onto phones). Ten years ago, the popular line was "OS/2 will kill Windows". Now it's "Linux will kill Windows." No it won't. An OS is worthless if it won't run the programs you need it to run and almost everything is written to run in Windows. Yes, I know you can use Wine or other emulators to run windows apps, but it's not quite there yet. People would rather run windows than something pretending to be windows. Just ask IBM. Until a suite of killer applications appears that only runs on Linux, Windows will dominate the desktop. Even if you have everything in place, it doesn't mean people will switch. What's the current market share of Apple? Switching takes time and effort, regardless of the OS cost. Most importantly, what do you think will happen when the market share of Linux gets to be large enough to matter? Economics 101. MS will start to lower the price of Windows in order to compete. Yes, Linux may be free, but if windows is selling for $10 a copy, everyone will buy it because it will STILL be running all the applications they think they have to have. Microsoft may not be all-dominating in 10 years like they are now. They almost certainly won't be. They have no where to go but down. But, they will still be the biggest kid on the block. ...and someone will be writing an article about how they are doomed. Don’t bet on it.
I’ve been reading “Microsoft is doomed” articles for 15 years and they have all been wrong. 20 years ago, I was reading “IBM is doomed” articles. Guess what? They are still around and still very relevant. Corporate America runs on MS and corporate America changes veeeery sloooowly. In the meantime, MS will be expanding their product lines, getting their fingers into more pies, just as they have in the past. They are diversifying. When one product no longer keeps the company going, they will have others to do the job. Instead of dying out over the last ten years, they took over the office suite, become a major player in the server market, become a major player in the home console market and taken over the PDA market (moving onto phones).
Ten years ago, the popular line was “OS/2 will kill Windows”. Now it’s “Linux will kill Windows.” No it won’t. An OS is worthless if it won’t run the programs you need it to run and almost everything is written to run in Windows. Yes, I know you can use Wine or other emulators to run windows apps, but it’s not quite there yet. People would rather run windows than something pretending to be windows. Just ask IBM. Until a suite of killer applications appears that only runs on Linux, Windows will dominate the desktop. Even if you have everything in place, it doesn’t mean people will switch. What’s the current market share of Apple? Switching takes time and effort, regardless of the OS cost.
Most importantly, what do you think will happen when the market share of Linux gets to be large enough to matter? Economics 101. MS will start to lower the price of Windows in order to compete. Yes, Linux may be free, but if windows is selling for $10 a copy, everyone will buy it because it will STILL be running all the applications they think they have to have.
Microsoft may not be all-dominating in 10 years like they are now. They almost certainly won’t be. They have no where to go but down. But, they will still be the biggest kid on the block.
…and someone will be writing an article about how they are doomed.

]]> By: RJ http://www.dailytechnobabble.com/2006/06/29/all-good-things/comment-page-1/#comment-52 RJ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:51:05 +0000 http://blog.dailytechnobabble.com/?p=13#comment-52 Yea, now with Vista not being image friendly I would say more companies will start to see the light. imagine having to install 100+ copies of Vista using automated install from M$ vs. Ghost or similar! Yea, now with Vista not being image friendly I would say more companies will start to see the light. imagine having to install 100+ copies of Vista using automated install from M$ vs. Ghost or similar!

]]> By: cyber_rigger http://www.dailytechnobabble.com/2006/06/29/all-good-things/comment-page-1/#comment-51 cyber_rigger Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:41:48 +0000 http://blog.dailytechnobabble.com/?p=13#comment-51 Companies are starting to preinstall Desktop Linux. <a href="http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/23168/" title="http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/23168/" rel="nofollow"> Companies are starting to preinstall Desktop Linux.

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