On: Microsoft is Dead

[brett]

You bring up a hilarious caveat to "No one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore."

The people now afraid of MSFT are not their competitors but instead their customers.

[BrandonM → brett]

I did a presentation a few months ago on Microsoft's DRM technology in Vista: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~mintern/601/presentation.pdf

It was when I first read about that and researched it that I realized just how bad it was. It's like the customer isn't even #2 or 3 anymore. It goes something like:

1. Money

2. Killing competition (including open source)

3. Hollywood

4. Locking out hobbyists and increasing licensing restrictions

...I'm sure I'm missing some...

n. Serving the customer

[william42 → BrandonM]

More like this: 1. Fucking the customer then everything you mention