Microsoft Will Not Win the Web

Molly E. Holzschlag rebuffs Microsofts SteveB's statment issued in BusinessWeek where he said:
“We won the desktop. We won the server. We will win the Web. We will move fast, we will get there. We will win the Web.”

Molly says:
The Web is not a prize to be won, and Mr. Ballmer’s attitude is deplorable in the light of what the Web means to the world, to users, to designers and developers and to put it into Microsoft parlance, customers.

The Web belongs to everyone. The Web’s core vision and value is to be platform independent. Microsoft has no right to think it can win a tool that is for the people, of the people, and ultimately - by the people.

No Mr. Ballmer, you will never win the Web for one very good reason: We the people will make sure you never do.

SteveB is beginning to resemble the former Iraqi Information Minister.

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