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Paul Graham, a hacker turned entrepreneur turned Angel Investor has written an excellent essay on why he thinks Microsoft is Dead, and that no one who matters or cares for computing and web is now afraid of Microsoft. The four reasons he listed that led to Microsoft´s demise are:

• Google, as their could only be one big man in town and for now its clearly Google and not Microsoft.
• Google took the lead from Microsoft with the launch of Gmail, which showed us how much we could do with web software utilizing a technique called AJAX. This swiftly transitioned a rush to all things based on web, and some noted that Instant Messaging is now the last desktop app standing.A critical component of AJAX is Javascript, the programming language that runs in the browser, which ultimately started the era of gadgets and widgets.
• Then came the broadband Internet, with which the bigger the pipe to the server, the less one need the desktop.
• The last nail in the coffin being Apple OS X, which makes Windows a thing for grandmas.

Pual Graham then also suggests how Microsoft could be realized. His suggestion to Microsoft being “Buy all the good Web 2.0 startups put them in a building in Silicon Valley to shield them from Redmond.” This is achievable because a) Microsoft has tons of cash. b) Because dangerously brilliant hackers could be have for a million dollars. Yup thats the amount Larry and Sergey were willing to sell their search engine for.

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