Microsoft et son influence... en grande perte de vitesse

[Macuserman]

Au lieu de longues phrases, de mots qui ne serveraient à rien, je vous propose ce petit lien...

Vous remarquerez que ce n'est pas n'importe qui; qui a écrit l'article: c'est le Times, la New York edition. :eek:

Sans être forcemment des pros des technologies, ils ont de très bons reporters qui eux le sont.

Voilà:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/technology/18digi.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

PS: un seul requis, savoir parler anglais, mais de nos jours, ce n'est qu'une modalité...puisque tout le monde doit savoir parler anglais !

MATHEMATICIANS have long tried, and failed, to solve the Riemann Hypothesis, a stubbornly unyielding math problem. Good luck to whoever tries to figure it out. For the first correct proof, a $1 million prize will be awarded by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Similarly, two successive Microsoft chief executives have long tried, and failed, to refute what we might call the Single-Era Conjecture, the invisible law that makes it impossible for a company in the computer business to enjoy pre-eminence that spans two technological eras. Good luck to Steven A. Ballmer, the company’s chief executive since 2000, as he tries to sustain in the Internet era what his company had attained in the personal computing era.

Empirical evidence, however, suggests that he won’t succeed. Not because of personal failings, but because Mother Nature simply won’t permit it.