Thursday, April 11, 2002

Microsoft Abandons .NET My Services .."We're sort of in the Hegelian synthesis of figuring out where the products go once they've encountered the reality of the marketplace," said Charles Fitzgerald, general manager of business development for Microsoft's Platform Strategy Group. [WinInformant] You have to love that quote. They joy of creating products that appear to have no market. Call this the real fall-out of the Anti-Trust case. Other companies are starting to see the cost of partnering with Microsoft. In the end perhaps the same thing will happen with Passport? MS needs to find ways to turn this around. By finding ways that they can make money without wiping out markets for other companies. The real problem is that in most cases, they are just too good at marketing. They simply want to be too many things to too many people. In doing so they try to grab everything, and that is the root of their problems...mj 6:59:51 PM

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