Why Microsoft Should Break Up

Friday, Mar. 18 2005 | Author: Scrivs

An article in InfoWorld discusses whether Longhorn will have enough compelling features to convince users of Windows systems to upgrade. The article goes into details about why it is difficult for Microsoft to create a best of breed anything and it seems that the answer is they are just too big.

In my non-expert opinion, Microsoft would be best served broken up into pieces and let the individual pieces go along and innovate. Once you create this huge monster that just continues to grow and grow it has to move slower and slower while the little competition can more readily move around and adjust to the market’s habits.

Longhorn will be good, because Microsoft has gotten increasingly better with each iteration of Windows (with the exception of ME) and having this one fail would be no less than a total disaster. However, they are still safe (yes, you can be safe from a total disaster) because many firms are still not convinced of moving to Linux. If that ever occurs and Linux reaches the tipping point in IT conversion then we can again begin to have fun and ridicule the new open source monopoly.

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2 Responses for "Why Microsoft Should Break Up"

biz4two

March 21st, 2005 at 15:46
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I respectfully disagree with MS breaking up. This large “monster” needs to be large to keep gaining the market. If MS was to break-up into several smaller companies, then a unified support structure would collapse. MS strongest asset right now is the support function. JMHO…
Matt Galaviz

March 21st, 2005 at 18:09
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What Microsoft needs to do is chop it’s tail. I’m sure Longhorn will still support programs that run on Windows 3.1. They need to take one leap forward or continue to patch their current OS. Cut it off at Windows 2k and above, and although people might be reluctant to move, it will get rid of some of the bloat, memory leaks and other crap that keeps it dragging.