A Cajun-Asian View

Paul Graham has declared that "Microsoft is Dead"! Actually, despite his provocative title, my title to this Blog post is much closer to what he actually is saying: Microsoft is "dead" the same way IBM is "dead". IBM really doesn't drive the technology world like they used to anymore, but they are still a major company that makes many millions of dollars of profit a year. And he gives several reasons for why he thinks Microsoft is "dead" in much the same way, including that Google is becoming the "top dog", for better or for worse, in technology, the rise in prominences of Web 2.0 technology (Like AJAX and the software that use it, like Gmail) that work in any browser in any O.S., and that the newer generation of startups that he sees are, increasingly, using Apple OS X, Linux, or otherwise non-Microsoft O.S.es to run their businesses, such that Paul himself is surprised when he comes across a Windows system!