The New York Times Claims Microsoft Is the New Kodak; Facts Suggest Otherwise

It's a familiar tune and an easy-to-come-to conclusion, given Microsoft's failures on the tablet/smart-phone/stock-price front.

The Times cites the tech company's flatlined stock price and the rise of Google and Apple as dominant gadget-makers and innovators as reason that someday shortly, people will ask "Remember Microsoft?"

There is another lesson in Microsoft's long slide. It is about how far corporate behemoths will go to stop innovation that threatens their dominance. Ten years ago, Microsoft tried to use its virtual monopoly of the operating system to strangle potential rivals and their new technologies. Fortunately, it failed. However the new rising behemoths will likely try similar tactics on whatever new gizmo challenges them.

Still, there's no mention of Microsoft's huge foothold in the $65 billion video-game industry, its remaining dominance in desktop computing, and its recent strides in cloud computing.

Kodak is a convenient boogeyman to right away find pursuant to this agreement Microsoft's bed, nevertheless considering that Microsoft posted $5.23 billion in net profit last quarter and is hiring thousands of workers, it's however a little premature to go calling the company an industrial has-been.