Eight signs that Microsoft dead in the water

Check out this article by John Dvorak on Microsoft. 100% true. Great read.

I am fully convinced that Microsoft is loosing focus on its bread and butter business - i.e., developing good software. Instead its spending most of its energy in territories like advertising and search. Leave those things alone! Yes, agreed that there is lot money involved in advertising, but that does not mean that you should jump into the other territories without having the capabilities.

Microsoft is too occupied and obsessed with what Google is doing and that’s gonna cost Microsoft a lot!. Where as, Google doesn’t bother about what Microsoft does!!.. The day it does, Google too would be in big trouble!

One of the points from the above article…

8. Preoccupation with Google. Microsoft is too easily distracted by successful companies who are not competitors. There is a deep-rooted belief that if a company like Google is successful, then they are an enemy per se. So the company obsesses on what Google is doing rather than concentrating on important Microsoft projects. Now Microsoft is about to do a deal with Yahoo to flank Google. This old-lady-like skittishness is unbecoming for a company this size.

Check this: Possible Microsoft & Yahoo merger article on slashdot.

More: Mr. Ballmer’s mail to Micro$oft folks.

I feel that the next couple of years would really decide Microsoft’s future!

3 comments | May 3rd, 2006 at 04:41pm