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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - MS is facing tougher competition in several areas now

Darth Tigris on 21 January 2011
Nintendology said:

If computers were only for hobbyists, nothing productive would ever get done. Honestly, commercial incentive is the driving force behind computer usage, be it consumer or industrial. People use to buy Altairs and do nothing impressive other than take on the sheer joy of programming it to do a math problem. It wasn't until Jobs and Woz decided to make computers for the everyday person and not the geek (or nerd, if you prefer), that computer technology really took off.




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supercat on 19 February 2011
LordMatrix said:
supercat said:

MS for a long time has had the fortune of being a monopoly with its OS and office software, but now is being threatened in several different products areas now.  

It's phone OS is losing marketshare to Android hand over foot and so is the Iphone.  Already, we have Android netbooks, as android is smaller/cheaper/ faster than the netbook version of windows.  Soon, MS will be losing more marketshare with its phones and netbooks, not good. 

Also, it is losing marketshare with its biggest cash cow, MS Office to OpenOffice.  OpenOffice is still fairly small in the US but it's gaining, most importantly b/c it is free and well made.

 

Also, its browser is losing marketshare, as the android OS is gaining so will Chrome (on netbooks for now anyway).  

 

Sell your miscrosoft stock, it ain't going up!

TBH this is a great time to have stock in Microsoft. Windows 7 is the fastest selling OS, X360 had its greatest sales year EVER, Kinect sold nearly 8 million units in 1st 2 months, WP7 seems to have good word of mouth and is a good phone OS, Xbox LIVE brings in tons of money from subscriptions and downloadable content,movies etc. & bing is of to a decent start and is not a bad first go for a search engine by any means. 

 

All in all there is more reasons to buy stock in Microsoft right now and less reasons to sell your stock. 

I prefer to look at the company's future prospects for investment decisions as the future cash flows are what the stock price is theoretically based on anyway, but frequently you see a lot of investing based on past results so that's how you can make some money if you like to play around in the market......and MS looks like it's going to be losing its mobile OS business altogether.  It also looks like the netbook business will be facing challenges as well, and i don't see what can stop google from taking it.  That's going to be a big deal for MS's revenue and profits.   



Legend11 on 20 February 2011
supercat said:

MS for a long time has had the fortune of being a monopoly with its OS and office software, but now is being threatened in several different products areas now.  

It's phone OS is losing marketshare to Android hand over foot and so is the Iphone.  Already, we have Android netbooks, as android is smaller/cheaper/ faster than the netbook version of windows.  Soon, MS will be losing more marketshare with its phones and netbooks, not good. 

Also, it is losing marketshare with its biggest cash cow, MS Office to OpenOffice.  OpenOffice is still fairly small in the US but it's gaining, most importantly b/c it is free and well made.

 

Also, its browser is losing marketshare, as the android OS is gaining so will Chrome (on netbooks for now anyway).  

 

Sell your miscrosoft stock, it ain't going up!

Who isn't facing tougher competition these days?  Nintendo has Facebook, iPhone and countless other new players and platforms that didn't even exist a few years ago.  Sony is forced with trying to cut costs everywhere and accept lower profit margins to compete with young upstarts and old foes alike in trying to keep what they have. 

I haven't seen similar threads in the Nintendo and Sony forums from you (please feel free to link me to them if I've missed them) so I don't get why you singled out Microsoft instead of making a thread in the gaming forum to discuss an issue everyone in the industry is dealing with.



Crazymann on 20 February 2011
ThePS3News said:

Its good to see M$ finally going down the garbage where they belong. I just recently bought stock for SCE (Sony Computer Entertainment) and i am happy to say that i am confident of my purchase of stock. 

Google >Bing

PS3 >360

Android/Xpehira >Windows phone

MAC >PC

Sony/Apple > M$

heh.... heh heh.... heee....heee heee...hee hee hee... ha ha ho... ho ho ho... ha ..haha... hahaha..... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Mmmm... Jobsian flavored kool-aid.

EDIT:  Though you are probably just a Sony fanboy who is so biased against Microsoft that you will root for ANY competitor.