{"id":581,"date":"2011-10-04T11:11:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T09:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2011-10-04T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:06:45","slug":"the-big-wheel-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/10\/the-big-wheel-of-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"The big wheel of progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of things follow the big turning wheel of success\/failure through time. Sometimes you go up and other times down. Take share prices and\/or market share in the IT industry. There was a time (some many moons ago) that Microsoft was soaring high among the clouds but lately it has been skimming the ground and loosing altitude with every flap of their (cripple) wings.<\/p>\n

As if being passed by Apple in many market segments aren’t bad enough it now seems another old ally\/opponent is passing it by in its way up – The big Blue company – IBM. Reading a post<\/a> on Ars technica showing a few graphs about share prices over the last decade (or two) it is clear Microsoft is on the downward side of the big wheel of business.
\nLooking at the graph (below) some interesting events can be seen (like launch of Windows 95\/Vista\/7). However, the general direction of the ‘Microsoft’ graph is not an ‘upward’ one – oppose to Apple\/IBM. It remains to be seen if Microsoft as a company can change this with new products like Windows 8\/Phone\/Tablet stuff. The perceived position of the company isn’t that of great strength – looking at the management as seen from outside. That doesn’t mean that Microsoft is totally doomed but the shareholders should be starting to worry (if they aren’t already hehe). A lot will ride on Windows 8 as a product and as a new direction for the once monolithic desktop OS company. There is always a chance that history can repeat itself and Microsoft can fight from humble\/small beginnings to cover the majority of (a\/the) market. Trouble is just that they have more than one powerful adversary this time (not just IBM). This time there are Apple and Google as well. Things certainly are not as simple as in the 80’s…\"\"Borrowed from Ars Technica… shamelessly.<\/p>\n

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Lots of things follow the big turning wheel of success\/failure through time. Sometimes you go up and other times down. Take share prices and\/or market share in the IT industry. There was a time (some many moons ago) that Microsoft …<\/p>\n

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