Nadie comenta. ¿Sera que nos importa un pimiento el futuro de Microsoft?. En mi opinion son historia (gloriosa, pero haitoria).

Hi Paul! This time I wasn’t saying anything, just pointing my readers to the debate (sometimes I prefer lo leave certain things up to my readers’ judgement, particularly in topics where I’m usually too outspoken). But since you mention it, here’s my take on the debate: I basically agree with both Robert and Dave. From Dave, what I get is that Microsoft clearly has a problem: is too big and bureaucratic, and is not being able to stifle innovation across its main business lines. Most of the innovation on these lines (OS and Office) is purely incremental, as Robert says, and the basic ideas have been grabbed from elsewhere. There are, however, some lines where Microsoft has been able to behave innovatively, but thse represent a tiny percentage of the company’s revenues. In time, the objective importance of products such as the OS and Office is decreasing more and more, and those little lines where Microsoft is being truly innovative (those that probably correspond to the famous “Google’s 20%) might become important, at least if Ray Ozzie is right. From my humble perspective, Microsoft is being way less innovative that what corresponds to a firm with its huge resources, and that’s a big sin they might end up paying at some point…