Nice article on Wired…
‘Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode’
“I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.
I love Windows, because without it there would be no PC. There would be no PC developers. There might not even be a Web.
I love the ubiquitous Web because of the connections that it opened up.
I love competition. But when we’re behind a competitor, I hate it when we find ourselves just chasing their taillights.”
Good stuff..
That’s a bit of a crock though…
Without Microsoft, there would still be a PC and there would still be a desktop. The desktop would still be quite usable also…and without Microsoft, there WAS a web.
Yeah maybe – but not as they exist and are used today.. Microsoft has made a lot of it happen. (That’s not to say that without Microsoft someone else wouldn’t have done it. It just wouldn’t have been done the same.)