Comments on: Now, for some fun, a look back at 2007 http://mrpogson.com/2008/06/26/now-for-some-fun-a-look-back-at-2007/ One man. Closing, all the windows. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: markba http://mrpogson.com/2008/06/26/now-for-some-fun-a-look-back-at-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-260 markba Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:58:53 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=108#comment-260 Tunnel based vision of the author of the article you're commenting on, but as you say: "The author could be forgiven, though. Lots of people who are very vocal on the web live in the world of which he wrote.", so he's excused. Frankly speaking, neither the author nor the manufacturer of that other OS saw it coming, the rise of the ultra light and cheap netbooks. They were only busy trying to take advantage of Moore's law to actually *use* the resources given to them and building an OS which was heavier than it should to be. So MS missed this completely, the ship is sinking, but they do not see it themselves yet. Maybe they are aware of this sinking ship, but they are not vocal about it because it would only cause the ship sink faster. Nevertheless, it's going under, it's not 'if' but 'when'. Tunnel based vision of the author of the article you’re commenting on, but as you say: “The author could be forgiven, though. Lots of people who are very vocal on the web live in the world of which he wrote.”, so he’s excused.

Frankly speaking, neither the author nor the manufacturer of that other OS saw it coming, the rise of the ultra light and cheap netbooks. They were only busy trying to take advantage of Moore’s law to actually *use* the resources given to them and building an OS which was heavier than it should to be.

So MS missed this completely, the ship is sinking, but they do not see it themselves yet. Maybe they are aware of this sinking ship, but they are not vocal about it because it would only cause the ship sink faster. Nevertheless, it’s going under, it’s not ‘if’ but ‘when’.

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