“A near monopoly is like a dictator,” said Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor. “Even a benign dictator runs the risk of failing to respond to the needs of the people, and how many people would called Microsoft benign? “What Microsoft forgot is that sooner or later, the masses do rebel.”
The times, they are a-changin’, as the old song goes, and nowhere is that more evident today than in perceptions of our old friend Microsoft.
In fact, after years of being viewed by many as an unconquerable leader in the world of desktop software, Microsoft’s armor is apparently beginning to chip.
Exhibit A: “Microsoft’s Lost Decade,” a recent article in Vanity Fair that paints a damaging picture of how the software behemoth has declined in recent years.