Why Microsoft is in Trouble
Good read: "Why Microsoft is in Trouble" ( http://www.baus.net/microsofttrouble.html ).
Interesting snippet:
While the 30 employees in company I work for can make a living selling software for a few million $'s per year, Microsoft can't even look at markets our size. Why? Microsoft is too big. The market isn't significant enough to make a dent in their revenues. In order to grow, Microsoft can only go after huge, massively profitable markets, and those are becoming fewer and far between. When appropriately large markets do arise (internet search and services), they often compete with their desktop products. These markets threaten to cannibalize their core business, which forces Microsoft into the loosing defensive position.
(bold mine.)
9 comments:
This was posted yesterday 11/2/2004 4:27 PM.
Yep, this guy must have worked at Microsoft in his past. There's that "loosing" malapropism.
The first poster is very observant indeed
So Microsoft is in trouble because it's too big to make nickels here and dimes there? Hello, all big companies have this problem, yet all are not "in trouble", just Microsoft. IBM is big, and it has no problem making money. This is just someone who's read "The Innovator's Dilemma" yet hasn't analyzed what it really means.
Stop harshing on this dude, he is funny as hell!! Don't you people get it? This guy is JOKING! Nobody could be serious about making millions from MSFT then saying they're evil. It's just nuts. Nuts I say, NUTS!!!
Oh I forgot, umm, I forgot. Anyway, this guy is freakin funny as shit. I read his humor column every week. Stop killing his buzz! You dumbass Walmart shoppers just don't know a good humorist even when he makes a fool of himself. ;)
Hello there, how are you? Me, well I'm fine, thanks for asking. You must not be from Seattle, you're far too polite. Perhaps you're from Portland? Ha ha, what a jokester you are. Ahh, you're a conservative Seattlite, a rare breed indeed, that wold explain your politeness. A more educated, and therefore more liberal, Seattlite would've just told me to shut the f*ck up and take my seat on the bus. But not you, you wonderful Portland-ite. I bet you didn't get honked at today, mergeing into Montlake after being stuck in traffic for an hour, did you? Well, to the person who honked at me during the Montlake merge, I would just like to thank you, so very much, you have taught me and my children what it means to be a flaming bitch. And I have no doubt that you voted for Kerry.
> This is just someone who's read "The Innovator's Dilemma" yet hasn't analyzed what it really means.
Ok, I'll bite. What does it really mean? MSFTs largest revenue and profit generating center isn't looking like the category killer that it did in 1996. The PC isn't going to be the center of the computing universe. The network is. Microsoft can try to stop this, but why fight the trend?
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