Going after Microsoft's operating system used to be hopeless. When I covered the company for the Wall Street Journal in the 1990s, I chronicled one failed attempt after another by software innovators to wrest control of the field from Bill Gates. IBM failed. Sun failed. Borland. Everybody. By the end of the 1990s, the quest had become a kind of ritualized suicide for software companies. Irresistible forces seemed to compel Gates's rivals, driving them toward self-destruction..
Cloud computing to make an end to Microsoft's monopoly?
Posted on Thursday, August 13 2009 @ 7:00 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckTechnologyReview takes a look at the latest developments in the software industry and explores whether cloud computing is a serious threat to Microsoft's monopoly over the operating system market. You can read it over here.
