Microsoft missed the(web) boat? NO Monday, March 10 2008
in response to post: Mix’08 Review: How Microsoft Is Fighting a War on Three Fronts
“I will give Redmond credit for turning faster than most big companies. When it became clear that the Internet was a big deal and they’d missed the boat, the company urged its coders to put hyperlinks everywhere, across every application”
IMO,
* Sun Microsystem missed the boat, I can remember the days in 90’s “java means internet”, Whats their revenue now?
* Yahoo missed the boat many times, they are the first one showed me search, directory, email , messenger etc. what is their revenue ?
* Google missed the boat, still they are showing 99% revenue in Advertisement.
Microsoft actually pushed internet services so early (2000), for example - .Net myservices (if I remember correctly its around 14+ services). If I see the history, Mr.Gates prediction has mixed results, few times they released in wrong time (so early or late). I believe that they are doing good job with live services at right time, but I am not sure about their search engine strategy/success.
