http://www.technologicalwanderings.co.uk/taxonomy/term/146 en http://www.technologicalwanderings.co.uk/node/86 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/81">microsoft</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/146">paul allen</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Paul Allen has written a book, revealing some more candid details of the early life of Microsoft:<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/30/microsoft-paul-allen-bill-gates">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/30/microsoft-paul-allen-bi...</a></p> <p>These are things people who worked in software always knew, but the world was blinded by the money and the marketing.</p> <p>There were many years when it was hardly worth publishing software because you knew if you had a hit that Microsoft would stomp into your market and put you out of business - or if you were really lucky, wait for your value to drop and buy you out. It amounts to two decades of lost opportunities.</p> <p>This is happening less these days. But only because Microsoft don't go after the little people any more - look at Bing, an evolution of MSN search. It's there only to kill Google. Xbox =&gt; Sony. They make huge losses but still they persist.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:13:59 +0000 techuser 86 at http://www.technologicalwanderings.co.uk http://www.technologicalwanderings.co.uk/node/86#comments