FishyJoe said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Food and other essential goods producers are still thriving, the crisis is not as widespread as bankers would like us to believe to persuade even the most liberist governments to give them money and have their errors paid at public expense.
A crisis exists, anyway, but it will hit more or less every competitor, for example MS is trying even the most shameful things against ODF (trying to cripple it at ISO committees too, by trying to force it to adapt to interact with OOXML, instead of enforcing the latter's highly criticized flaws and quirks correction) to stop the irresistible decline of Office in the SOHO market, Vista is so hated that it will die young, killed by Windows 7, Linux, although still minority, is doing so well on cheaper subnotebook to make Ballmer's few remaining hair curl and force him to extend XP's life, thinking only Sony is hit is irrealistic.
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The fact is that consumer electronics will be hit very hard this holiday season, especially at the upper end where Sony sells. Circuit City declared bankruptcy and Best Buy says the consumer electronics segment will take a massive beating.
I'm not saying MS is in the best of shape, but they have a boatload of money and don't have to fight the yen. And they don't have to rely on consumer electronics sales this winter is a huge plus.
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MS is in a much better shape then Sony. PCs still sell like crazy and MS XP or Vista is bundled with almost each one. The PC market is only going up and MS is reaping the benefits of a near-monopoly (Apple has 10-20% market share I believe).
Plus with Euros and yen being worth more then the American doller, I believe they earn even more from Euro 360 sales.
