Microsoft's complete product lines in terms of software and hardware are estimated to make all rivals hate and love it, because it is not very focused and gives other products more room for survival. The following is a picture drawn by a netizen from a foreign website called software wars "software war". Microsoft is the target of all. Let's take a look at the figure and talk about it. You can skip this long-tongue text and directly read the following conclusions. In the operating system field, Microsoft Windows (Vista) is challenged by the Free Software GNU Linux, however, Red Hat Linux, Debian, And Its Application Software gnome, Kde, koffice, and mono have enhanced Linux as a personal and service operating system, other Unix-derived versions such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD also play a certain role in the server field. After Novell's acquisition of SuSE Linux, its market share has risen very fast, and it has replayed Netware's brilliant trend. At least the European market SuSE has given Bill Gates a headache. In addition to being dominant in enterprise Unix systems, IBM, HP, and sun are also dominant in some market segments, such as databases, J2EE, and enterprise information applications. Especially in the Java field, the previous launch of the Microsoft Dot NET platform in the industry will significantly affect Java's concerns in the enterprise application market, at present, Java's mainstream verbs in enterprise applications have not been weakened, but are being further strengthened. As a follower of Microsoft technology, Borland's dilemma is very embarrassing. c ++ builder's transformation failed, Delphi. net is not a good name, developers have invested in the competitor's arms, has made the most influential in the field of development tools, the company's landscape no longer. In the browser field, it seems that the good days of IE are not so perfect. The emergence of Firefox has attracted more and more developers to add plug-ins to the production of open platforms. With the launch of Firefox 2.0 and IE7, the new showdown has started. The larger IE7 is, the shorter firefox2.0 is. Currently, Firefox is more popular among IT personnel. IE7 may become popular with the automatic download of patch packages. From the development of Eclipse, we can foresee that software + plug-ins (non-Rogue plug-ins) are the trend of the times, and Internet-popular people are welcome to learn from browsers such as Firefox and opera with great care, to achieve great success. In terms of Internet servers, IIS has been a strong challenge for Apache. Due to performance problems, IIS is still in a bad situation in a large number of concurrent applications. In terms of development languages, apart from being challenged by Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and so on all have their own market segments. ASP. NET is not as popular as ASP in the past. It is foreseeable that the scripting language will still have its own world in terms of web development. Google, which was listed by Bill as Microsoft's No. 1 enemy, started with search engines and gradually challenged Microsoft in mailbox, instant messaging, map services, desktop search, and other fields, microsoft's MSN live and Hotmail seem a little weak. "The Network is a computer", and this prediction is becoming a reality. Web OS may be first implemented by Google, and the piracy problem will be solved by that time, who else needs to install the big and stupid Vista? Apple's challenges to Microsoft, as illustrated in the figure, are no longer Mac OS or even Apple computers, but itune products (or lifestyle ), microsoft's Zune music is promising now. Apple's success in music and entertainment is not just as simple as hardware and software. Similarly, Xbox is still not very optimistic about the PS challenge after many years of huge losses. However, the success of Windows Mobile and Ce on mobile phones and embedded operating systems can be said to be Microsoft's hope. Microsoft's operating system is deeply rooted in the hearts of individual users. Although benefiting from the proliferation of piracy, it is also benefited from the guidance and grasp of user operation habits. With the Operating System Authorization on mobile phones and handheld terminals, Microsoft may be able to compensate for the loss of piracy on the PC and copy the data on the mobile phones and handheld terminals on the PC. At present, the growth in the Microsoft mobile operating system market has exceeded that of Linux, and Symbian has formed an invasion trend. In addition, Microsoft has now entered the enterprise application software field, and has taken office as the front-end display of dynamics, competing with SAP and Oracle, however, SQL Server's current situation is the same as that between Oracle and DB2, and it is not enough to become an industry leader. Of course, we do not want to stand out from the huge Microsoft empire. We can see from the figure that although Microsoft is on all sides, the best it mind in the world can not only think about how to deal with it, of course, it also serves. Large Microsoft is currently at least ahead of the curve in terms of its personal operating system, personal application software, consumer electronics, and gaming platforms. In the Server field, applications such as Windows Server, SQL Server, dot netframework, virtual PC, and dynamics will continue to be suppressed by front-line vendors and products. In any case, the emergence of the Internet has made the IT industry open, and the Foundation for Microsoft to obtain the market through monopoly has been shaken. Microsoft's misjudgment on the Internet has made sun, IBM, Google, and other companies. Its product line is too long and will bring more growth opportunities and opportunities to enterprises in the industry. Of course, it is too early to say that Microsoft is already familiar with it, because most of the wars are first picked up by Microsoft. In addition to technology, Microsoft's biggest advantage is money. The split storm, European anti-monopoly litigation, and reconciliation with sun and Novell are the results of the Golden dollar offensive, what is more terrible than a competitor acquisition ?! What kind of brilliant stories will Microsoft bring about in the Post-Bill age deserve our expectation.
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Feng Qiang, it maintainer and free commentator. The above remarks only represent the author's personal position!
At present, he works for Changhong multimedia Industry Co., Ltd. and is in charge of the Information Management Department of the Technical Service Center.
15 years of IT information management experience, focusing on Business Process Reconstruction and project risk assessment.
