Rationalizing Microsoft and Skype ⇝
I, Cringely puts a good, rational analysis on the $8.5 Billion acquisition. Some good bits:
“[Microsoft and Ballmer] have lost confidence. Microsoft no longer believes it controls or even can control the game. Worse still, they don’t have confidence that they even know the rules.”
And this:
“Apple isn’t the next Microsoft, you see. Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft, ever. Google is the next Microsoft, so Google is seen by Ballmer as the immediate threat — the one he has a hope in hell of actually doing something about.”
It’s a good, quick read.
Archive: May 2011
