{"id":687,"date":"2008-06-20T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T09:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/687-microsofts-big-break-failing-competitors.html"},"modified":"2008-06-20T10:18:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T09:18:38","slug":"microsofts-big-break-failing-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/687-microsofts-big-break-failing-competitors.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s big break: failing competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/7464074.stm\">has an article<\/a>, prompted by Bill Gates\u2019 retirement from Microsoft, on how the company thrived because of the failings of its competitors.<\/p>\n<p>I find this ironic. What gave Apple its big break in music, and in gaining market share for the Mac? What gave FireFox its big break in web browsers? Maybe even Google\u2019s success is enabled in part by Microsoft\u2019s failure to compete effectively.<\/p>\n<p>The description of the young, nimble Microsoft is quite a contrast with the company today, which takes <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/powershell\/archive\/2008\/06\/17\/when-will-powershell-v2-ship.aspx\">around a year<\/a> to get a product from a feature-complete development stage, to actual shipping.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:01aa7e5a-5068-419a-af52-9a2f3a14444b\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/bill+gates\" rel=\"tag\">bill gates<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has an article, prompted by Bill Gates\u2019 retirement from Microsoft, on how the company thrived because of the failings of its competitors. I find this ironic. What gave Apple its big break in music, and in gaining market share for the Mac? What gave FireFox its big break in web browsers? Maybe even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/687-microsofts-big-break-failing-competitors.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft\u2019s big break: failing competitors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}