I think the article is very badly written, for example, what does it mean to be a 'complex company'? There's very little actual content to this article, essentially boiling down to a matter of focus and applying the whole company to a problem. However, this isn't a particularly good point since that's exactly what MSFT did when they realized that the internet was a pretty good idea after all (remember Netscape).
Personally I think that all these threads about the death of MSFT are completely off base. They represent a minority (myself included) that have largely 'moved on' from MSFT. The last time I used a product from MSFT was a long long time ago. However, that doesn't mean much because I, and many others on HN, live in a bubble that is very much not representative of the rest of the USA, or the world.
They all have their ups and downs and right now, thanks to the overly aggressive control of their iPhone platform, Apple's the bad guy right now, but that shifts with the wind. I have many apple products, but I stick with my blackberry because its a better platform for my smartphone needs, doesn't mean I won't buy Snow Leopard, or another MacBook or iPad, or whatever.
So called journalists have been playing the X vs Y company game for decades... This is just more of that ilk.
Personally I think that all these threads about the death of MSFT are completely off base. They represent a minority (myself included) that have largely 'moved on' from MSFT. The last time I used a product from MSFT was a long long time ago. However, that doesn't mean much because I, and many others on HN, live in a bubble that is very much not representative of the rest of the USA, or the world.
They all have their ups and downs and right now, thanks to the overly aggressive control of their iPhone platform, Apple's the bad guy right now, but that shifts with the wind. I have many apple products, but I stick with my blackberry because its a better platform for my smartphone needs, doesn't mean I won't buy Snow Leopard, or another MacBook or iPad, or whatever.
So called journalists have been playing the X vs Y company game for decades... This is just more of that ilk.