He probably means "dead" as in "the threat is dead", not the company.

And in that way he is right - MS is hardly a threat to anyone anymore (except to itself).
 

I thought the article made sense for the most part, but he lost his credibility with the 4th point - when he started talking about how he hasn't seen a computer running Windows in ages.
Some people need to come out the little web 2.0 bubbles they live in and take a look around.
 

Just posted my thoughts on the topic:
http://blog.umeshunni.com/archive/2007/04/07/Microsoft_3A00_-Reports-of-our-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated.aspx
 

sriram

you r confusing microsoft technologies and microsoft, the company. get out of that place and u can do far better things.
 

I've gone back from Vista to XP Professional. I've forced MSN Messenger off.

Basically MS software use, is one long stream of disrespecting my commands, acting like a retard, & not doing what I say.

When I see the brain dead C++ examples in MSDN I know why, though..

It's like Neanderthals banging two rocks together and claiming it to be 'technology'.
 

You guys ought to be ashamed.
(Personally, I'd prefer you were shot.)

Just the accumulated impoliteness of pushing MS-dogmeat-N Messenger in my face, asking for repeated confirms, and stealing focus.

Oh, and the fact that there's still no decent database backing the file-system.
I have three different sets of meta-data, probably four, for every file in my system.

Because of you guys' complete incompetence.

It appears that people write better code in JavaScript, not uncommonly, than MS write in C++.

As I said, ashamed.
(Or shot. Or married to a redneck in Arkansas, who picks his teeth.)
 

Everytime someone says "Desktop is dead", I have a good laugh. Just wait for the web 2.0 bubble to burst..

And, btw, did you get linked to from slashdot or something? Those anon comments are really pretty funny...

And, when he said that he hasn't seen a computer running windows for a long time... [Insert heavy laughter here] I haven't seen a computer running Linux unless it was an university or college and I haven't ever seen an Apple item in my life except for my cousin's iPod...

As umeshunni said, some people need to get out of their totally internally reflecting bubbles...
 

P.S. And, I don't think Paul reads the Jobs Blog or known how things go on inside Redmond, no?
 

War generals who made horrible mistakes in their last days reacted in exactly the same ways when people critisized them. Don't look into yourself and examine the problem but just shoot an accusation back and get into the comfort zone.