Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Oct 2006 08:39 UTC, submitted by rx182
Microsoft this Friday will ship the final pre-release version of Windows Vista and, unexpectedly, will name the release as Release Candidate 2. Previously, Microsoft had publicly asserted that it would not ship an RC2 milestone release of Windows Vista. But don't let the name fool you: RC2 is really just a standard interim build of Vista and will not be given out to millions of users as was RC1.
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RE[4]: Not to get too wierd defending Mr. Softy
by kaiwai on Wed 4th Oct 2006 07:23
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RE[5]: Not to get too wierd defending Mr. Softy
by twenex on Wed 4th Oct 2006 16:28
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No, I did NOT say "Microsoft is declining"; what I said was that even given the fast turn around times of technology, it's possible for a technology company to experience a slow decline. Furthermore, if that company has experienced massive growth, then if year after year its revenue growth slows, (e.g. it grows 25% in year 1, 20% in year 2, 15% in year 3...) sooner or later, if nothing changes, it is going to start shrinking.
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Yes and no. It's possible for a company (especially a technology company) to go in a "ditch" and come out of it again, but even technology companies experience slow decline: looking back now, I think it's obvious that Data General and Digital Equipment Corporation's problems started sometime in the eighties, and they never really recovered. Of course, declines are slowest when you're a huge company that's entrenched, and because of the number of people who use computers, I doubt anyone in the computer industry has ever been as huge (in as large a single segment of the market) or as entrenched in that market segment as Microsoft is right now.