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YCombinator VC: Microsoft Is Dead

Earlier today comScore told us that Google has surpassed Microsoft as the most visited site on the Internet. Now, this just in from YCombinator venture capitalist Paul Graham (pictured right)—a touching, and prescient, eulogy over the smoking corpse of Microsoft… "A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead… No one is even afraid […]

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Earlier today comScore told us that Google has surpassed Microsoft as the most visited site on the Internet. Now, this just in from YCombinator venture capitalist Paul Graham (pictured right)—a touching, and prescient, eulogy over the smoking corpse of Microsoft...

"A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead… No one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore. They still make a lot of money—so does IBM, for that matter. But they're not dangerous...

__I'm glad Microsoft is dead. They were like Nero or Commodus—evil in the way only inherited power can make you... __One of the reasons 'Web 2.0' has such an air of euphoria about it is the feeling, conscious or not, that this era of monopoly may finally be over."

Photo: Duncan Davidson