Microsoft has gotten to a size where it's almost impossible to outgrow the market. The surprising 60 to 70 percent growth period is over. |
Their challenge is to become a good corporate citizen, which means not always being the star of the show but being a supporting player. That might mean sometimes standing under the spotlight; at other times it means taking a seat in the orchestra pit. |
Unless Microsoft can prove that Windows 2000 is all of those things -- highly interoperable, consistent and reliable -- they can damage themselves and lock themselves out of the computer room for the next decade. |
Windows 2000 is an operating system that is so critical for the overall success of Microsoft that it is hard to state it strongly enough. |