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famousringo on 22 April 2010
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Silver-Tiger said:
famousringo said:
Microsoft, though it tries again and again, just can't seem to break into new markets. They haven't conquered phones, consoles, music players, media centers, or search engines, and they don't seem to make much money on a product if they don't have monopoly control of a market.

What? So you consider the Xbox brand a failure? Last time I checked, Xbox 360 was second in the console race and sold nearly 40 million units.

Look at it from an investor's standpoint. Microsoft has burned piles of cash to buy second place in a market and is struggling to recoup the expenses of this generation, let alone those of last generation. That's not creating value for shareholders.

No matter how much consumers like to buy subsidized hardware and software, it's not a success from an investor perspective.



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