MS didn't lost their mojo,it's Apple finally find their mojo

No.

They still a giant company wich makes shitloads of profit and have like what ? 70 Bilion in Cash ? Maybe even more.

Its just Apple that has higher price points and have find the right spot.

Apple realized that trying to compete with PC/Windows was hard as hell since once people are set in their ways it's hard to make them change their minds. Sure they could grab small parts of market shares from the PC but they could never overthrow Windows' dominance. So they opted to focus on new markets and with the iPod they succeeded in making it the MP3 player to rule them all and now pretty much in the same way that most people won't leave Windows because that's what they know, people keep buying iPods because that's what they know. Then of course they kept creating new markets with the iPhone and iPad.

Despite all the mistakes that hurt MS, which by themselves hurt MS' reputation, Apple offered something that felt unique and fresh. And that is tough to compete with. Just look at consoles: Wii was the gaming device for the mass market. It felt unique and fresh and people were willing to try it. Kinect`s motion gaming felt fresh but not unique, that`s why, despite the early success, it didn`t set the world on fire like the Wii.

MS has got to create something that feels unique and fresh so that people can feel be attracted to MS once again.

Because people are morons and buy bloindly in Hype and Apple's self-hype is "magical"

No, they are significantly stronger. dumb articles like this focus on the share price as the means to gauge how well he has done. Simple fact is MS was massively overvalued in 2000 (as were most dotcom companies). Since Balmer took over profits, revenue and sales have all skyrocketted and they have moved from being a joke in the enterprise to owning a significant portion of the enterprise. Has he done everything right, definitely not, but he has been incredibly successful in growing MS from where it was in 2000.

That was actually a truly insiteful read, I really enjoyed it.

I couldn't help but agree though, Microsoft has made a lot of big decisions over the last few years and quite a large amount of them have failed, the 360 is a success for sure, but other than that, I'm not sure what is. Windows 7 is good but that was after Vista, Windows Live PC games were a disaster and one of their corner stones in Internet Explorer is getting slowly eroded by Chrome.

But as the article correctly says, technologies moves fast, if Balmer goes, Microsoft could find that next big product, the next Iphone, Ipad or Facebook and then Microsoft could be great again.

apple has one, really loved product ( the ipod and it's variations) everything else apple makes is regarded as trash.
MS has the most used gaming OS for PCs, and has the gaming choice console of 6th and 7th gen.
Did MS lose their mojo? yes. I think they did, but not with what they offer for PC and maybe even windows phone 7.

Windows 8 is regarded as a bad OS from almost everyone that has it. again, MS releases a junk OS to make people hate them ( see vista)

The xbox shocked the world of gaming and for its short time was very successful and gave both game developers and gamers what they wanted, a good console with good online and it was easy to develope games for.

the 360 continued where the original xbox left off, but something went wrong at MS, and they stopped making games, and stopped caring about gamers. This is where MS started losing their mojo. though hardware wise kinect didn't do too bad go to any gamestop and they will have a lot of them sitting around. almost no one plays kinect games and I guarantee if the next xbox is more of a kinect box no one will buy it.
the lack of focus on the gamers that made xbox important is pushing what once were fans back to the sony camp or even to PC.

1Microsoft needs to stop trying to bully and rule consoles. they need to focus on gamers first and foremost.
2Next they need to stop the abomination that is windows 8.
3Stop useless spending ( I am sorry but skype wasn't worth what they paid) and buy game companies, or companies that actually have good technology worth buying.

No,

Has Microsoft lost its Mojo?


No