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Originally Posted by Mike
Microsoft is declining, they made the same mistakes Hitler and Napolean did. Microsoft originally started out purely as an OS company, then they went into office tools with Microsoft Office, then PDAs with Microsoft Mobile, then news with MSNBC, then search with the MSN search that will supposedly beat Google. They are fighting on too many fronts, just as Napolean did. Their biggest loss has been against Google, they simply cannot defeat an enemy that large. They've resorted to suing Google ( Microsoft sues Google and Google countersues). Hitler, as well as Napolean tried to take on the superpower USSR. They both failed miserably, as will Microsoft.
My history knowledge isn't nearly as good as my computer knowledge, so correct me if something is wrong. |
Declining? They actually posted 8% higher profits then last year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4704927.stm
Office is an excellent product which can be replaced at home with Open Office, Star Office, etc, but it not in the Corp. world - try to convince someone to switch to pop3 or imap email with Thunderbird instead of the collaboration features of Outlook paired with Exchange.
Windows Mobile is getting e-mail push in October with Exchange 2003 SP2 and Windows Mobile 5.0, which should give Microsoft a huge chunk of the Blackberry market if they can get the hardware providers to produce good quality devices. An upgrade to Exchange SP2 for free or a $30000 Blackberry enterprise server isn't much of a tough choice.
I'm not a huge Microsoft fan, but you guys are counting them out way too early.