| 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! |
Who isn't facing tougher competition these days? Nintendo has Facebook, iPhone and countless other new players and platforms that didn't even exist a few years ago. Sony is forced with trying to cut costs everywhere and accept lower profit margins to compete with young upstarts and old foes alike in trying to keep what they have.
I haven't seen similar threads in the Nintendo and Sony forums from you (please feel free to link me to them if I've missed them) so I don't get why you singled out Microsoft instead of making a thread in the gaming forum to discuss an issue everyone in the industry is dealing with.
