Ed Brill

CRN: Microsoft, the new IBM

Something interesting happened on the road to and from software dominance. Microsoft, which always delighted in displacing the old farts of technology, has become an old fart itself.
Yes, ladies and gents, meet Microsoft: the new IBM. What once seemed a hungry, always-working-the-angles product powerhouse now seems increasingly set in its ways and downright stodgy.

(Adopts Bevis & Butthead tone): "heh heh, heh heh, she said fart"
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