Sony's competitive position

[DirtyP2002]

Persistantthug said:

DirtyP2002 said:

• Windows 7 is selling faster than any windows before, so no, Windows days ain't numbered at all.
• MS Servers are growing very healthy outperforming Unix by a biiig margin.
• .NET framework is still the most used one and ASP.NET already has 21.4% of all websites are using it already, coming in 2nd after php.
• MS Office is still here to stay and rightfully so.
• With Skype and Windows Live Messenger MS owns 70% of the market.
  (http://www.winrumors.com/microsofts-instant-messaging-share-now-almost-70-thanks-to-skype/) 

How come people up with stuff like MS is not growing so fast as they used to? MS increased their revenue 25 billion USD over the past 5 years. 5 billion USD INCREASE every year and people say it is weakened. Awesome logic. Compare that to the past 5 years Sony went through and tell me again about the competitive position of Sony.

And lol at the BDA stuff.

When a movie company can make a healthy BluRay business with a product that costs $19.99, I am confident that MS won't suffer from these fees with a product that costs $59.99. People forget that BluRays are using a MS software for compression and I doubt the BDA got that one for free. So MS supporting BluRay wouldn't be a big deal at all.

Which compression is that?

What patent are you referring to?

"For video, all players are required to support MPEG-2 Part 2, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and SMPTE VC-1.^[99] MPEG-2 is the compression standard used on regular DVDs, which allows backwards compatibility. MPEG-4 AVC was developed by MPEG, Sony, and VCEG. VC-1 is a compression standard that was mainly developed by Microsoft."