 |
 |
 |
|
Re: Ozzie and OS as commodity
A MAC is just a desktop with another OS and that MS Office is used by most MAC owners just underscores my point. I don't fault Ozzie for anything. He expresses beautifully one of the major reasons for MS's success. A world in which there is only one OS and one set of core business applications - at least one that matter - makes developers' lives so much simpler and their profits (as long as MS doesn't want your business) so much fatter. That there might have been a world based on open standards that, for example, might have made Groove's functionality fully available to non-MS applications doesn't concern them - they're practical people with work to do. MS deserves all the credit for knowing that developers were the key and for providing them with the tools to make their jobs easier. (Sun certainly didn't "get it".) The only price - innovation and productivity. I'm afraid I don't share your optimism, in large part, because no one - except MS - seems to see that it is the business applications, not the OS, that matter in the long run. .Net and MS Office/IE so tightly integrated that they will be inseparable.
|
