Microsoft is losing it’s edge
In VBA for Macintosh goes away Joel Spolsky says:
When Microsoft lost the backwards-compatibility religion that had served them so well in the past, they threatened three of their most important businesses (Office, Windows, and Basic), businesses which are highly dependent on upgrade revenues.Interestingly enough, Apple threw out their backwards-compatibility religion and make OSX, which has served them very well — their market share is increasing. But MS already has the vast majority of users — meaning, they can’t grow anymore. It’s either upgrade, stay the course, or move to something completely different. Microsoft has removed on the only thing that will make them money. At least in their current model. I can and do say all sorts of negative things about Microsoft, but I will be the first to admit that they learn from their mistakes and are highly adaptable. But how will they adapt to this?
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