| mario64 said: Nobody said MS was doomed. It's still obviously a very profitable company. Nobody contests that. It's just the pace of the decline (-30% revenue) is slightly worrying, and even more worrying is the loss of market share in their core software businesses (OS, browsers, office...). Nothing more, nothing less. When General Motors started declining, nobody saw anything either, everybody said they would stay the number one, yet today they reached bankrupcy... What matter is the trend. |
Boy are you wrong. Plenty of people saw problems with US car manufacturers and thier continuing trying to live off of big Car, big SUV and big trucks.
As for MS core software business. They still own nearly 90% of the OS market. 70% of browser market (and more importantly nearly 100% inside corporate walls. My firm develops business software and rarely do we have to concern ourselves with browsers other than IE). Server software MS is also doing bang up business. The only are of our business growing in this economy is MS SharePoint and related techologies (well actually MS Silverlight is growing as well and this is also driving MS Server needs). SharePoint is a part of Office 2007 and requires Windows Servers. We only develop software so we dont implement office desktop or operating systems. Yet we only have to concern ourselves with MS Office and Windows for integration, except occasionally marketing departments need us to support Mac.
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
