[dba-Tech] Steve Balmer's nightmare

If you have been making your living for years on Microsoft products but have
been watching the innovations of previous product version becoming less and
less and them not keeping up with today's new computer world, then you will
understand.

MS Access comes to mind. An incredible product, which should or could have
been expanded with functionality, innovations in language, updated in
capabilities/capacity and it had such a dedicated and loyal following of
developers. Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, abandoned its followers by
producing one shoddy product after another...and now that loyalty has been
lost and will take a lot of effort to recover it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-ballmers-nightmare-how-microsofts-busin
ess-really-could-collapse-2011-11

Above is "Business Inside's" take on Microsoft's woes and what will happen
if it does not get its ducks in a row, pick what products to support,
realize that it no longer controls the market and build some good solid
products.

The consolation may be in that, Oracle, a long time adversary of Microsoft,
is going through the same challenge.
 
Jim