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Does Microsoft Stand a Chance?

Lately Microsoft has been doing a lot to stay (get back in?) the game. Microsoft Live was released to compete with Google, the Zune was released to compete with the iPod, Vista’s 3D desktop to compete with Linux’s Beryl and Mac OS X’s effects, Vista’s new not-so-retarded desktop search to compete with Linux’s Beagle and Mac OS X’s spotlight, and now Silverlight to compete with Flash. Why has Microsoft waited so long to release products to compete with tools that have already been around for years? Things like the iPod, Google, and Flash have already completely dominated the market for so long – to the point where no other company even has a chance. At this point, the only thing Microsoft has is money, a lot to gain and almost nothing to lose.

What new features or products has Microsoft pioneered in the last five years? It seems they can hardly keep up with the innovation of the rest of the market, let alone come up with their own ideas. This is bad news for a company who’s prime market is based in innovation! At this point, is Microsoft even competing anymore, or just flailing their limbs to try to grasp anything that may even remotely resemble a “new” product?

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  • http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~bjandrew/blog Bennett

    Hear about the possibility of microsoft-yahoo? Boo for that. I hope the web is still usable in 5 years. I like how the silverlight website talks about standards and then makes you install sliverlight to see anything. Check out the recent post from mark pilgram http://diveintomark.org/ about the “silly season on the web”.

  • http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~bjandrew/blog Bennett

    Oh and by usable, I mean as usable as it is today. And by usable today I mean not very usable.

  • http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~bjandrew/blog Bennett

    Hear about the possibility of microsoft-yahoo? Boo for that. I hope the web is still usable in 5 years. I like how the silverlight website talks about standards and then makes you install sliverlight to see anything. Check out the recent post from mark pilgram http://diveintomark.org/ about the “silly season on the web”.

  • http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~bjandrew/blog Bennett

    Oh and by usable, I mean as usable as it is today. And by usable today I mean not very usable.

  • http://openradix.org/ Luke Hoersten

    Nice. Mark’s post hit the nail right on the head. All these proprietary software companies are trying to figure out what all the fuss is about with open source and all they can think up is that people want a shiny new web2.0 search engine. Yahoo is going downhill (their web mail client is proof). The only way they can keep up is by buying cool web2.0 sites.

    Hopefully all these companies will clump together like a whole bunch of drowning cats trying to climb on top of each other to survive.

  • http://openradix.org/ Luke Hoersten

    Nice. Mark’s post hit the nail right on the head. All these proprietary software companies are trying to figure out what all the fuss is about with open source and all they can think up is that people want a shiny new web2.0 search engine. Yahoo is going downhill (their web mail client is proof). The only way they can keep up is by buying cool web2.0 sites.

    Hopefully all these companies will clump together like a whole bunch of drowning cats trying to climb on top of each other to survive.

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