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Another thing, do you pay to Gmail or yahoo when they add a new feature ? Today Gmail added Ant-virus, did you have to pay for it ? Why should one pay Microsoft when they are just improving something.

Ant-virus is the only field that needs constant updates and Microsoft is doing the right thing by entering into that field. They have to make sure they have steady revenue since they are into too many things and other units are basically bleeding.

hmm, fine you have point. But why you think users would move to linux ? in my opinion it will make users not to upgrade their existing windows version and this will indirectly hurt microsoft as they might find it hard to convince users on the reasons on why they need to upgrade to the latest windows.

SunnyVijay.

Regarding being complacent about IE, why did they become complacent when there was no Netscape and why a new release when there is firefox. No, I am not ready to believe they were complacent, but it was a strategy to not allow web based applications to take away the revenue from their desktop apps.

Now with Ajax and web2.0 paradigm, microsoft knows they have to change or they lose market. So they will adopt the new paradigm whole heartedly, and perhaps control the direction of technology as with browser.

That’s why the impetus towards office live and Windows.

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On the other hand, if there’s one strategy that Microsoft has mastered, it’s letting smaller, more nimble companies innovate, then adopting those innovations in its flagship products. Like the integration of RSS in MSIE 7.0, and, yes, tabs.

1. Other than IM/Media, I don’t thing any great applications are client based. Look what Google did to maps or to gmail or what Yahoo is doing to Yahoo Mail. Now RIA is the standard and I don’t think anybody is thinking of client Apps. Industry is moving towards RIA and AJAX paradigm. Some of the greatest apps for the past 5 years are eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Google and Wikipedia are running over the browser and some of the other innovations are going to be browser driven. What ever else is client based is free; nobody is going to buy a client based apps. IMs been around since start of internet and other than SKYPE nobody’s figured out how to make money out of it.

2. I am not denying we need client apps, but we do not need MS to run these applications. Why do you think Microsoft is launching office live, because they see that in future applications are going to be delivered over the web, not using clients? Please tell me one application other than Office and Norton Antivirus which you are FORCED to buy when you buy a PC? If you can get Office online then the only one left is Norton. So only way for Microsoft to make revenue is through OS. Now if I am not going to run MS office or outlook or any Microsoft propriety code , then why will I have too choose Microsoft ? I can use any other Free OS , if it were available(read linux) .

So you see, Microsoft loses it’s strangle hold over the two most profitable products, Office and OS. They can’t afford to lose money on this, since they are bleeding elsewhere.

From a developer’s perspective, like me, I cannot do without windows desktop, because I run my Development IDE on windows. So I agree with you on that. Corporate customers might still continue using it, but it just throws open the door for a new competitor to MS.

There are lots of other things , I guess I will post all my arguments in a separate post.

But I would appreciate your feedback.

Rgs,
Venkatesh