Peter you forgot to mention X-box and especially the new Kinect... that is a thorn in Nintendo Wii's butt.

M$ isn't going away anytime soon.

----- "Peter Osotsi" <peter.osotsi@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
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Looking at the future, what does Microsoft have in stor?
  • Dead Phone platform... 
WP7 is the answer to Windows Phone problems, actually, WP8 might just be what M$ wanted several years ago. 
  • Eroding Desktop market share (iOS & Android being the biggest cannibals)
Windows 8 is proving to be the "killer" OS that M$ would have developed in place of Vista. Its the answer to Macintosh OS. Anyway, yesterday is never the right time, today is. 
  • Eroding server markets share (cloud deployments)
Well, Servers have never been M$'s domain. *NIX has been. Of late, M$ servers have been doing fine.  
  • Eroding Office - Google Docs
M$ has cloud deployments for office 2010, space of upto 25GB "cloud", far more than the 7GB from Google, and so on. Theirs is poor marketing and a poor platform - "LIVE". But they have improved a lot since those days.
  • Record breaking online losses....
Well, it's never been their strength neither. But again, anything can happen when you realized "you either kill the elephant or it tramples on you". I never rule out Microsoft! 
Sorry to say this but if the trend continues, Microsoft will have to pull an 'Apple' and bring in the Founder (Gates) to restore order... 

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Exactly. Never mind they can pay whomever they want to do whatever they want at whatever cost. Microsoft will survive in the technology ecosystem for a long time, you only need to look at the trading trends on Wall street and the other products they have in their stable.

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 As for apple, it might just be a cancerous growth.

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