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Assertion That Microsoft’s ‘Dead’ Doesn’t Compute

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 16, 2007

[ Thanks to AlexGr
for this link. ]

“‘Microsoft is dead,’ wrote Paul Graham late last week in one of
the silliest columns I’ve seen in a while.

“Graham is a smart guy, and probably the one most responsible
for you not getting entirely inundated by spam. His ‘A plan for
spam’ outlined the method now used by most anti-spam software.

“In this latest message, ‘Microsoft Is Dead’ Graham argues that
the Redmond giant was killed by Google, which showed people that
the desktop wasn’t nearly as important in the age of Web-based
applications…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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