It is very late and I am too tired for a more detailed reply to this. The dude is wrong.
By the way, isn't anyone else tired of this endless "shift to services" BS that we've been fed by tech-media since around year 2000? And even if it's a "shift" indeed, as opposed to just another possible option, isn't Microsoft in the best position to simply start charging everybody $XX/mo for Vista subscription?
Microsoft does have its problems, but they certainly have nothing to do with their business model or "lack of friends". As much as I dislike their products these days, nobody else managed to charge people for software as much as they did (and still do). Almost everybody else, having failed to produce something valuable enough to have users pay them money, is busy deciding on the same lame question: "shall we put the ads up or we still have enough cash to wait until someone acquires us?" The business is simple: make something people want and they will pay you. Either up front or monthly - is it really that important?
Every point he makes is either invalid or plain stupid. How can one say that "Microsoft is doomed because their stock isn't rising anymore"? He is confusing a reason with consequence.
By the way, isn't anyone else tired of this endless "shift to services" BS that we've been fed by tech-media since around year 2000? And even if it's a "shift" indeed, as opposed to just another possible option, isn't Microsoft in the best position to simply start charging everybody $XX/mo for Vista subscription?
Microsoft does have its problems, but they certainly have nothing to do with their business model or "lack of friends". As much as I dislike their products these days, nobody else managed to charge people for software as much as they did (and still do). Almost everybody else, having failed to produce something valuable enough to have users pay them money, is busy deciding on the same lame question: "shall we put the ads up or we still have enough cash to wait until someone acquires us?" The business is simple: make something people want and they will pay you. Either up front or monthly - is it really that important?
Every point he makes is either invalid or plain stupid. How can one say that "Microsoft is doomed because their stock isn't rising anymore"? He is confusing a reason with consequence.