“What happened to the hoopla around the Windows 2000 launch? As
far as I can tell, the expected uproar has evolved into a
whimper.”
“…it does seem clear that the market is proceeding fast, and
Microsoft is struggling to keep up. Witness the company’s latest
ASP push. You could almost forget the company is on the verge of
its biggest product launch ever. (Don’t believe me? Just look up
Microsoft’s own words.)”
“Maybe it’s the fact that the savviest of marketers are no
longer ending up in Redmond. It would be hard to find someone
with more flair for publicity than Transmeta’s Linus Torvalds or VA
Linux’s Larry Augustin. (Torvalds will probably be appalled to hear
this, but he’s the best front man of the past five years.) How
else to explain the fact that Transmeta’s rollout of the Crusoe
chip merited coverage on national TV? That’s the kind of attention
usually reserved for Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.”