Cyanogen said to be hoovering up cash, but NOT from Microsoft Sources say Android alt-firmware outfit Cyanogen is close to closing a new round of funding, but Microsoft reportedly won't be among the investors. Bloomberg reported on Friday that Cyanogen is close to an agreement that would see it raise $110m from a group of financiers including PremjiInvest, the investment firm of Wipro …
Um, we're talking about Microsoft, not Google.
Microsoft has demonstrated that it is stupidly evil. Microsoft has failed in practically everything it has tried outside of Windows and Office, but it has not been capable of gathering a micro percent of what Google has got on everyone while pretending to "Do No Evil".
So, as far as evil is concerned, Microsoft urgently needs to participate in Google seminars on "How To Become An Evil Genius", because one thing is certain : Microsoft has lost the crown in that area.
He said *practically* everything. They also make great keyboards and mice, a very nice (but unfortunately OS-locked) development environment called Visual Studio, a fairly decent managed language called C#, and a good Linux web hosting environment called Azure that also hosts Windows sites.
But the point is that Microsoft's DNA isn't to be A player, but to be THE player - to dominate entire product categories and strangle the innovation out of them to extract maximum profit. Think IE6 before the great Firefox liberation, or Windows Mobile before the iPhone, or Windows tablets before the iPad.
But despite massive investment, they've never replicated the cash-generating technorati-infuriating success of Windows and Office, and so by those standards, they are an aging 2-trick pony vulnerable to a herd of break-dancing young Arabians.
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