AfterDawn: News

News.com has made an extensive analysis about Microsoft - the company we love or love to hate. The article explains Microsofts exapansion to new fields of the IT business and introduces the possible threats and strongest competitors. OpenSource, enterprise market competition, the new MSN/.Net strategies all examined in the article.

Personally the timing of this article was perfect, as I just made 1st real installaion experiments with latest Linux releases (Mandrake 9.0, RedHat 8.0). To me, as a total Linux newbie, the distribution are starting to seem mature enough, offering suprisingly easy installation together with amazing set of incorporated key applications (Office software, grapichs, internet..). Linux distributions are actually starting to seem like an alternative for example to small business looking for a cheap software solution!



Anyway, this is good reading to everyone interested in more serious IT-news.

The technology recession, strategic miscalculations and general wariness following the Justice Department's four-year antitrust case have resulted in a psychological shift against Microsoft throughout the industry. Rivals and customers are sensing opportunities to challenge the software empire after decades of presumed invincibility.

In this four-part special report, CNET News.com examines key technologies, competitors and internal mistakes that are exposing cracks in the Microsoft kingdom.

News.com

Written by: Lasse Penttinen @ 18 Oct 2002 12:57