[Eug-lug] Microsoft is Dead

[Bob Miller]

Another Paul Graham essay.

> Microsoft is Dead
> 
> April 2007
> 
> A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking
> to a young startup founder about how Google was different from
> Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their
> fear of Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a
> "media company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at
> his face and realized he didn't understand. It was as if I'd told
> him how much girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 80s. Barry who?

Read the whole thing.

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

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