# Gaby de Wilde @ 8:47 AM Wednesday, January 19, 2005 view from google
 

close microsoft?





gaby wrote:
What MS service would be good for firefox?


Mallgur wrote:
MS closing down.
It would be good not only for Firefox but to computer science in general...

Gaby wrote
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1622629,00.asp

Mallgur wrote:

Quite interesting article... I think that the autjor may be onto something. I disagree, though, with his notion for the evolution in a post-microsoft world.
Microsoft closing down would lead the market onto new options. In an immediate future I'd see Linux growing stronger than ever, but it would not be the definitive OS.
I suppose that we might come to a situation in which users would have any hardware/OS they wanted and access to the same programs.
It is really not that far fetched. Imagine a word processor over the web, is it that impossible to implement? Wouldn't a user be more willing to pay a small amount for each use than to pay a lot for the right to use the program altogether? What if, when you pay your ISP, you get added benefits like access to word processors and spreadsheet applications? Maybe the future lies in a services industry instead of a software industry... I've read about this perpective before. Some say that Microsoft's bet on .NET technology and a common Framework for all programming languages is a step in this direction. Provide the work base for all software, independent of hardware/OS, a layer that makes this combination irrelevant. Sell the "use" of the software instead of the license, or permit, to use it.

Anyway... I don't think they could offer anything valid to Firefox. If they could they would have invested in IE, or a whole new browser, long ago. Unless the idea is really to close down and they have decided not to do it.
Gaby wrote:
quote Mallgur:
Microsoft closing down would lead the market onto new options. In an immediate future I'd see Linux growing stronger than ever, but it would not be the definitive OS.

I don't know stuff that no-one tried. The way to find out if Linux can is by all working at it. Can't know how far we get before we try. I guess Linux does have the updates we need. At first I thought MS would never have the resources to update all the software. Later they actually had the money but it didn't happen.

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I suppose that we might come to a situation in which users would have any hardware/OS they wanted and access to the same programs.

I think pacman support for office workstations is overrated.

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It is really not that far fetched. Imagine a word processor over the web, is it that impossible to implement? Wouldn't a user be more willing to pay a small amount for each use than to pay a lot for the right to use the program altogether? What if, when you pay your ISP, you get added benefits like access to word processors and spreadsheet applications? Maybe the future lies in a services industry instead of a software industry... I've read about this perspective before. Some say that Microsoft's bet on .NET technology and a common Framework for all programming languages is a step in this direction. Provide the work base for all software, independent of hardware/OS, a layer that makes this combination irrelevant.


Blogger is starting to look like this. It stores text in a organized way it has wysiwyg a spell checker a html editor. It exports in html and you can even send email to it. To voceblog by phone you need a phone. Don't even have to own one. Razz

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Sell the "use" of the software instead of the license, or permit, to use it.


To develop good pricing you look at how the user uses the product. For a one time use of a product we want a easy way to pay for 1 use. Just like the payed email support with mozillazine.

Software you need all of your life should also be payed for for all of your life. We want to pay for having the right application in place. Just like a few online games use a monthly contribution to keep things fresh and new.

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Anyway... I don't think they could offer anything valid to Firefox.

I found the overall learning proses is a lot harder if you make a opinion before you know enough facts. We don't know what they could offer, and don't know how valid that thing we don't know is. Until we see it. : )

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If they could they would have invested in IE, or a whole new browser, long ago.


Why not make firefox the new IE?

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Unless the idea is really to close down and they have decided not to do it.
If they really are selling out - we want the browser development.

Why not just buy it? I bet MS would be happy to get free money and free software. All we buy is their marketing name and the browser distribution network. And ours is so many times better they should be damn happy to give us 99% discount.

I know the whole idea is on the nuts side, it's still just an example of deploying the normal contracts all professional businesses have.



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