Does Microsoft need to rethink its general strategy?
Here’s an interesting article that says it may be the end of an era at Microsoft.
Gone are the days of skyrocketing stock prices at Microsoft. The grand vision of the company’s next-generation OS has proved too ambitious, with Windows Vista missing deadline after deadline. Customer frustration with security flaws and lock-in tactics is growing. Microsoft’s attempts at software as a service have been largely stillborn. And throughout it all, Microsoft executives maintain that the biggest threat is … a search engine company?
Plainly, the real problem is that the old ideas just aren’t working. Microsoft has been phenomenally successful as a software company, but as the years have gone by, it has increasingly struggled to adapt to change. The Internet changed computing in fundamental ways, yet by Bill Gates’ own admission Microsoft was slow to react.
I know nothing about the inner workings at Microsoft but somehow I doubt if there will be major change. They are still the 800 pound gorilla and they have a lot of things going on already.
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