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Avoiding mistakes

Everyone wants his or her world to behave according to expectation. But recognizing when that's not possible and changing the expectations are important to being successful.

Here's a quote from the Comment mixing the realistic and the unrealistic:

Microsoft???s future lies in the cloud and software-as-a-service vision. But gaining a foothold in the virtualization space, that is, respect at the base of the stack, is an essential ingredient to making that happen.

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On cloud and SaaS, of course that's not computing's future, and especially not Microsoft's. A supplement, a complement to core functionality, yes, but not the base for computing. Microsoft has recognized that this dream is only a hope that the company's software will cease to be central, and appears to be doing a good job providing the real advantages qwithout the inadequacies.

On virtualization, yes, it's another product to be sold or at least to advantage Microsoft's other products. Microsoft's business is products many people and organizations are willing to pay for.

As Steve Ballmer observed to a group of children visiting the Microsoft "campus", selling software is the way Microsoft can afford to give employees all the free soda they want. Free soda, not software.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 06/27/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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