Paul Graham revisits 'Microsoft is Dead'

10.04.2009

Graham stands by his claim. In fact, he's added two more Microsoft-eroding changes to his list.

"The big stories in the 2 years since have been [Amazon Web Services] and iPhone apps," he wrote. Graham still marvels that Web 2.0 startups get their remote computing resources not from Microsoft, but from Amazon: "An online retailer! It would have seemed almost impossible to people in 1999 that anyone would be saying that in 2009."