“Not I” said the Windows user
“I liked Ultimate but I’m no loser
I paid for a Vista upgrade
but when my 3D shader failed to shade
I decided XP was the right call
You can’t blame me at all.”
Who killed Microsoft? Why did all those jobs get lost?
“Not I,” said the Netbook buyer.
“I just wanted something lighter.
Not my fault Atom was crap
and couldn’t run my Windows apps.
I installed Linux, yes it’s true,
but what was I supposed to do?
It wasn’t me who made it fall,
you can’t blame me at all.”
Who killed Microsoft? Why did all those jobs get lost?
“Not I,” said the Zune fanboy,
“I got Zune, I’m no iToy
Sure it didn’t do too much and
too bad my girlfriend bought a Touch
now we’re iTunes all the way
what else do I have to say?”
Who killed Microsoft? Why did all those jobs get lost?
“Not I,” said MSN,
“Just point your finger at them.
Look: Google does a better job,
we didn’t buy Yahoo! cause they’re clods
People want a good old fashioned engine
but we lost our parent a few million.
But it wasn’t us who made it fall,
you can’t blame us at all.”
Who killed Microsoft? Why did all those jobs get lost?
“It wasn’t me,” said Steve Ballmer.
“I’m no less fat but I’m much calmer.
Bill Gates told me he’d never leave
but now he’s gone just like Steve.
I’m trying I’m trying yes I confess,
but no one watched me at CES!”
Who killed Microsoft? Why did all those jobs get lost?
A combination of goofiness (sort of) killed MS: The Zune fiasco, the Vista fiasco and the loss of Gates hurt a little more than the company let on.
I saw only newbies click on google’s sponsored links, which have mostly misleading captions. Google’s click business wont run long, since all people get net-educated. At least microsoft did not make money by cheating noobs.
“…since all people get net-educated”.
Since when? I want to live in this fantasy world that you inhabit…go on, tell me where it is.
I’m going to give you a (perhaps rather rude, but completely honest) wake-up call: spend just two weeks answering comments and email from people who use AOL, and you will never, ever, ever again believe in any such thing as the redemptive ability of people to “net-educate” themselves.
There are two kinds of people in this world: smart and dumb. You haven’t met the latter group of people yet, have you? Their numbers are so vast and their ignorance is so complete, they make the smart people look like an aberration of some sort.
“At least microsoft did not make money by cheating noobs.”
Right, they made money by lying to, bullying and cheating mostly anybody they could.
very few netbooks run Linux these days
They are all running MacOS…
But Apple don’t produce netbooks
and who’s to say they killed Microsoft?
MS has an Ace down with a hook
Windows 7 is making it tough
So who killed Microsoft?
Nobody did
because you can’t kill a Giant
with a needle like this.
so tiny and small
they still have most of the clients
so Prepare for the wrath
of the mighty gods
Microsoft is coming
with Windows 7 my god
so don’t get in it’s path
I’ll crush you like rats
and yeah that goes to you Mac!
jajajajaj I had fun making that up
I think that you are right on that one
ah… so here is where the post actually is…
Not me, said the web designer
Mac has always been my industry’s standard
OSX is just so nice
It’s worth pay’n the extra price
No I didn’t make Microsoft fall,
You can’t blame me at all
(Thanks for the Bob Dylan reference, Biggs)
What is the blank post doing on TC?
Sorry. Our cross posting thing broke.
The economy? Why even post this, o wait, its anti-microsoft you HAVE to post it.
Seriously though..no one killed M$. They are facing stiff competition but are still making profits and Win 7 should help their cause. The fact that their cloud computing sol. won crunchies award shows that they are not really out of ideas as far as web based solutions goes.
I think you somehow missed the joke..
Not much of one. Pyew.
Not in my office…
Give me Mac NetBook for less than 500$ please..
Well Bill Gates isn’t there anymore. Perhaps that had something to do with it.
One person killed Microsoft, and it is Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft is a study case for companies that accomplish their main mission, and “forget” to take on a new one.
They’ve accomplished to put a computer on almost every table, now what?
Are they going to put an xbox in every living room, or put a zune in every pocket, or put live search on every homepage, or what?
Microsoft became old, executes poorly(vista, zune, live, msn) and will die if it continues this way(even if windows 7 will succeed, it won’t stop the drift towards the cloud which will eventually replace the need for better OSes, and Microsoft Office – the two cash cows).
MS – Please replace your CEO, the world needs a microsoft that executes brilliantly, we want our OS faster, we want our office accessible from everywhere, we want to admire MS and not laugh and dismiss it .
MS, Please become the amazing company we all grew up on.
I Agree with you about Steve Ballmer, he is not a guy that’s likeable. I wish they will replace him. I read a story that was talking about how Bill and Steve had conflicts and even though Bill is the Boss that lead to Bill retiring but don’t be surprised if Bill comes back, I hope he does.
Now where i don’t agree is the thought that everything will be cloud based. I definitely won’t eat from that cake. I rather have something that i can sync files i choose but still have my OS local.
It’s a matter of opinion,
Personally I think that you prefer syncing because there all the cloud office solutions(zoho, googledocs) aren’t equally strong.
Imagine that Google docs’ excel functionality was exactly the same as a local ms excel file, with the added benefits of versioning, backup, easy collaboration, easy sharing, access control and more.
Just look at how many people left outlook for gmail(including my company which is based all on google apps).
I don’t think cloud applications can replace local applications right now, but i’m guessing that 3-4 years from now they could(have you seen the speed chrome runs gmail? it’s faster than outlook).
Eytan
Your proclamation that MS is dead is like the prius driver that tried to tell me that my mercedes was crap. You are delusional. MS will continue to dominate, and profit.
You are right, it’s not dead.
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yet.
eytan is always on the point
I think you might be the delusional one here. The Prius driver was right in the sense that, just like with MS defending an old and increasingly less relevant business model, your Mercedes represents thinking that is decades old. It’s not crap, but it sure isn’t the way forward. MS will eventually discover the way forward and one day you will be driving a car that is more inline with the planet’s needs. But both of you will look back and wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.
Is the author serious about Microsoft being killed due to job loss? Its a joke. Out of 5000 that are planned to be layed off, 3000 will be rehired internally. We are talking about 2000 out of 100,000 employees.. Does 2 % lay off suggest Microsoft being killed?
Ah fanboys. So blind.
oh, fanboy from the other team, quick to judge another fanboy
Yes I believe you right
I didn’t know TC is censoring comments .. whow … kinda sucks … there are at least 5 comments missing since 1 hour ago ..
the comments got eaten.
No I said the Blogger
Writing blogs that criticize the strong
and over glorify the weak is good business.
All I did was care about my bottom line
regardless of the truth and sat on the side
while the company that defined and influenced
the entire industry was belittled and attacked
for no reason at all!
No I didn’t make Microsoft fall,
You can’t blame me at all
nice one Jim
The monopolist who pawns it’s overpriced, cheap buggy crap off as the “industry standard” playing the victim of the criticism it so richly deserves? Violins – we need more violins!
It seems as if MS are the only people who actually believe the Apple commercials.
MS needs to do what they do best, and stop trying to copy Apple.
Windows 7 is a step in the right direction. We want lean software. Get rid of the duganish features–make them available for download for people who want them.
A very liquid, efficient, manueverable, fast OS.
Fair from dead, an annual net income of $17b and $20b cash on hand. I think they’re doing pretty good comparative to most companies in the recession.
You’re right Microsoft is still in Business despite all – crisis, Linux/Ubuntu, Poorly done Vista & and so on. Unfortunately we are the ones that keep losing monies to buy an overvalued OS. Well I’m not one of those spending monies, and i spend a lot of my time explaining to others not, nowadays its no excuse being blind. Microsoft is gradually digging its grave & I’m happy. They’ll have to put alot of energy into Windows 7, if not their market shares will have a free fall. Viva Linux, free and affordable for ALL
Look i know most people like free stuff but his bullshit about making an OS and giving it for free does not benefit no one. Yeah it’s true it could help companies get off the ground if the product is free but that’s Bush IT. AS a developer if work my ass to build an Operating System i don’t want to go ahead and give it away. F That from A to Z. I work my ass up and I will charge, now i can understand that MS should reconcider it’s pricing specially with the crap they promise for Ultimate and didn’t deliver and yet charged a premium, furtunately i was lucky enough to get Vista Business and Ultimate for free. Now Vista is agreat OS but it was bloated and it’ fair to say that they rushed the OS and i believe part of the issue of the shame of Vista was that they had bad management organization. They have great people who work their ass off at MS and bring us great software so i hate it when i hear people talking about how great is LInux and linux problem comes down to organization and all the different flavors it has. There is no central organization for the OS and it’s annoying. This is the main reason Linux won’t get off the ground unless they go about fixing this. The Operating systems has revolutionized the world economy so i would say that 300 dollars for an OS is a fair deal.
Dude, in case you haven’t noticed free operating systems are everywhere and are making a LOT of money. Just because Linux based systems don’t have one version to rule them all it doesn’t mean failure. Quite the contrary, one of the open source movements greatest strengths is its decentralisation.
You use free operating systems every day all day without even realising it. I assume you do one or more of the following:
Use google
read Blogs
do online banking
have an iPhone (BSD)
use facebook
use electricity
have a linksys router
use tivo
visit loads of other LAMP powered sites
buy a book on amazon
Watch TV
Watch a movie (Yep most special effects and animations are done on high end linux systems)
I can go on and on dude…
Oh and um wait 90% of DNS servers run Bind on BSD or Linux so theoretically every time you go to any website you just used a free operating system.
Still think free operating systems don’t make money? They don’t have to make money because they are money. The code is its own currency.
Who pays for it? A company hacks code for their own benefit and everybody benefits. We all make money.
Eeek now all this confused free operating stuff is chaotically assembling itself on desktops. And so what, 2009 wont be the year Desktop Linux takes over the world but it will get closer like the Tortoise and the Hare. Remember that old yarn? The Hare decides to take a snooze underneath a tree, its going to win anyway? Theres no way that a disorganised hippy Tortoise could ever win anyway.
Windows is cool, I like windows. For now it keeps my desktop users happyish. This doesn’t mean it will always be king of the desktops.
Another cool thing about the “disorganisation” of Open Source platforms is that they are like Hydra’s. You cut the head off and it grows two more. Its a new way of doing business and developing which is a lot more organic and natural (cliche cliche). Closed source software is way too dependant on its corporate parents, because of this it will never have the longevity of free code.
:)
Good read and pretty accurate. Sorry the Microsoft apologists get angry when you point out facts.
Of course
to repost an earlier comment…
revenue in the billions of dollars. profits in the billions of dollars. who killed microsoft? no one.
if you really want “new media” to kill newspapers – quit with the yellow journalism.
Survey says…. (ding!)… Their own vendor lock-in strategy.
Microsoft will not fall
The way IBM did not fall
The way Xerox still holds
The way Kodak continues to awe
The way dead-tree newspapers will never fold
The way Marlboro Man will always smoke
The way Circuit City asks for no pity
The way Citibank won’t shoot blank
The way GM is still at the helm
(this piece will be submitted to The Worst Poem Competition)
Not I, said the Economy.
I’m doing fine, I’m not your enemy
Microsoft is the only company that has fallen in a chasm
I can assure you, sir, this aint sarcasm.
No other companies are cutting jobs at all.
Nice one.
I think it is the name “Micro”.. they need a name that stands for something big like Gooooooooogle
or AAfter [a bit of nepotism ;-) ]
Great job – crunchgear finally has a post that is comment worthy.
Welcome, TechCrunch readers!!
“Not I” said the ‘I’m a PC’ Guy,
“Mac is just stupid, why would I lie?
“Vista is amazing, at least for productive folks,
“I’m not concerned, iLife is a joke.”
(That took more effort than you think, now click through to my blog! :p )
Is that a picture of Davey Moore?
(or however you spell his name?)
that guy from that Dylan song
who’s death brought so much fame?
Whhy! And what’s the reason for…
i am throwing my windows software out the window right now. oh, wait, i never had this junk anyway :)
Microsoft will adapt (slowly), and has already recognized the old business model won’t make money any more.
It’s just a question of how painful will it get. How many tons of fat will the giant have to lose.
Before they completely come around and realize that companies which try to hoard wealth by keeping everything proprietary and controlling/licensing everything will fall by the wayside. Now it’s about interop, modularity, providing superior service in small tasty digestible chunks that can be arranged to the users’ taste and need.
But they really need to fire their ad execs – those “I’M A PC – and I’m cooler than you” ads in the muni are fucking arrogant, smug and annoying!!!! As was the Seinfeld tv ad fiasco. These people are so out of touch with humanity… I don’t understand how people can be paid so much to create such crap.
Microsoft is not going anywhere. For the vast majority of computer users, Microsoft is the one and only. Also, talk about overpriced crap, how about Apple hardware?
Not interesting :( I don’t find the reason why people hate Microsoft although they embrace their technology.
i must agree with that one.
“Not I” said web serving guy
“The cost of M$ Server is too high,
IIS is like swiss cheese
so I’ll take Apache and lighthttpd please.
As for web server virtualisation
KVM, Xen and OpenVZ rule the nation”
:P
Nobody likes MS, but they got used to it, after years of throat downing. If Apple made an OS that I could use in my old PC, probably I’d use it. Sure it’s clever and prettier. But no way I’d pay extra bucks for it. And then buy another Mac again in OSXI, and other one in OSXII and so on. Eager motherfuckers, that’s what they are. And everybody uses a free pirated version of XP anyway. I always thought that the real linux of the world is a pirate and cracked version of XP.
@ Nick: You need to educate yourself on the concept of licensing. Just because it doesn’t run Windows doesn’t mean you can’t turn a profit. It just means you’ll have to wean yourself off MS’s methodology/crack.
Pirating XP? Are you kidding me? Is that your way of saying “I’m not an addict, I stole the dealer’s stash.”
I really don’t understand this bullshit flamewar between Mac & Windows users. Do you really think these corporations owe you anything? Do you believe they have your best interests @ heart? Have you even *read* an EULA?
Do you even know what an EULA is?
Educate yourself as your rights are eroded more & more. Continue to pay hundreds of dollars for restrict software guaranteeing to run only on the more recent hardware… if it still doesn’t work, then time to upgrade!
Then call them for support. But remember, that EULA guarantees no guarantees.
I’ll be the first to say I’d gladly help MS fall.
Who killed Microsoft? Why did all those jobs get lost?
“Not I,” said Steve Ballmer
I just wanted to f**king kill Google
but was left stranded and banboozled
How can it be me?
All I did was laugh at the iPhone
Surely I could clone… a phone
They would have no significant market share, I crowed!
How did I know I would get owned.
Ha! Surely you jest…
It was Linux who stole our IP!
So I stood up and screamed
Threatening everyone to a T
All I got was reamed…
What’s wrong with everyone?
About Vista… Didn’t I admit
To all you nitwits
After the launch
To a country at fault
And I do not digress
It was a work in progress!
It wasn’t me, I submit
So stop throwing a fit!
When Gates left the room in a huff
I sat down and had a nice puff
How much more could I do?
So stop being so rude!
The answer for all you apers,
it was always developers, developers, developers!
I know you all agree
So I’ll do little to appease
I appreciate all kindness
From my fans, the mindless
So if gift-giving you crave
I’ll accept it in spades
But please, please, please I beg
Don’t send me any more eggs.
Full disclosure: I use Windows XP on my desktop and Linux in my laptop, my laptop is mostly used for work, my desktop is mostly used for … vanilla stuff, like gaming and a few apps i cannot get to run well on Wine… yet.
IE: Come on, it might be used by a lot of people, but that doesn’t make it any better… As any webdev will tell you, IE is a pain in the neck. BTW, v6 is really crap, v7 was going to be cool but ultimately it went to crap (the loading times for about:tabs page?) let’s just hope v8 works.
Windows Live Hotmail: This one’s easy, it could be cool if it wasn’t asking me constantly that my Firefox 3.0.5 is not something it likes.
Windows Vista: Why do you think i have Linux on my laptop? It might have been Toshiba’s fault, but then again, when I can reliably run Mac OSX Leopard on a P4 with just 512MB Ram and 64MB of shared video memory then you kinda know something is wrong with Vista. Maybe 7 will be the silver bullet to all this hassle.
MSN Search: While it might be better than many, it’s no match to Google. PERIOD. (Cool wallpapers on the search page though).
I don’t own a Zune, have never seen one working, sorry… Though that says a lot about this… I have seen iPods, many of them.
Ha! Surely you jest…
It was Linux who stole our IP!
So I stood up and screamed
Threatening everyone to a T
All I got was reamed…
Don’t worry. IE 8 is also crap.
what do you want plaese?
what do you want please ?
???
microsoft rulez!
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