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Stoic Joker:
To paraphrase a nugget of wisdom from Despair.com...-Vurbal (August 14, 2013, 08:48 AM)
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I Freaking Love That Site!
40hz:
That kind of thinking worked great for railroads and telcos because they controlled scarce resources. Like a lot of other megacorporations Microsoft has convinced themselves they can artificially impose the limitations of the physical world on the virtual one so they can pretend nothing has changed. It won't work any better for them than it has for newspapers, record labels, or TV networks.
-Vurbal (August 14, 2013, 08:48 AM)
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Probably not.
But they still have the capacity to make life a bigger hell than most people are willing to deal with when the easy option to just go along with Microsoft is available. And many will.
As far as innovation goes, Microsoft's current position is depressingly predictable.
Innovation is only of value to a business when it is still actively competing. Once the business and its product become established, innovation is then viewed as a threat. And the strategy such businesses resort to is: first, to get innovations outlawed as "disruptive"; and second, if failing that, to argue for regulation in the name of establishing 'standards' which have the tendency to dampen innovation by favoring existing products and providers. Today, they will also throw in the fight against terrorism, drugs, media piracy, and kiddie porn when the old argument for 'standards' breaks down.
There's no innovative strategy here. Just Microsoft doing what every other company has tried to do once they thought they cornered a market: feature-freeze the technology and lock out the competition
Vurbal:
But they still have the capacity to make life a bigger hell than most people are willing to deal with when the easy option to just go along with Microsoft is available. And many will.
-40hz (August 14, 2013, 01:15 PM)
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Exactly right. The question isn't really whether they will fall. It's how much collateral damage they inflict on the rest of us in the process.
superboyac:
That kind of thinking worked great for railroads and telcos because they controlled scarce resources. Like a lot of other megacorporations Microsoft has convinced themselves they can artificially impose the limitations of the physical world on the virtual one so they can pretend nothing has changed. It won't work any better for them than it has for newspapers, record labels, or TV networks.
-Vurbal (August 14, 2013, 08:48 AM)
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Probably not.
But they still have the capacity to make life a bigger hell than most people are willing to deal with when the easy option to just go along with Microsoft is available. And many will.
As far as innovation goes, Microsoft's current position is depressingly predictable.
Innovation is only of value to a business when it is still actively competing. Once the business and its product become established, innovation is then viewed as a threat. And the strategy such businesses resort to is: first, to get innovations outlawed as "disruptive"; and second, if failing that, to argue for regulation in the name of establishing 'standards' which have the tendency to dampen innovation by favoring existing products and providers. Today, they will also throw in the fight against terrorism, drugs, media piracy, and kiddie porn when the old argument for 'standards' breaks down.
There's no innovative strategy here. Just Microsoft doing what every other company has tried to do once they thought they cornered a market: feature-freeze the technology and lock out the competition
-40hz (August 14, 2013, 01:15 PM)
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