MS is facing tougher competition in several areas now

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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.