Eight signs that Microsoft dead in the water
May 3rd, 2006 at 04:41pm
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!
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3 Comments Add your own
1. babji | May 3rd, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Not really 100%.Recent win of microsoft/amazon was blow for google.
Check this out
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1689358,000200170001.htm.
Any way good blog.I will be a regular visitor
cheers,
babji
2. AJ | May 4th, 2006 at 12:49 pm (subscribed to comments)
I am sorry Arjun, I dont agree with you on this article.
#4 - MSN Search Engine. Again more of the same and pointless. Selling ads Could be the dumbest thing I’ve read all year. Search engines make money. How is that pointless?
#8 - Microsoft is too preoccupied with Google. Really? Look at the budgets and employees working on Windows and Office, vs. those on Windows Live. It’s clear the priorities are in the right place, and Live is doing great with smaller teams.
From: http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/05/03/more-of-dvoraks-pointless-linkbait/
3. Saurabh Garg | May 22nd, 2006 at 11:12 am (subscribed to comments)
Dvorak comes across as very arrogant in most of his columns. In this case, he is flat out wrong about Microsoft. This is one of the world’s most innovative companies we’re talking about. How do you figure that they are losing focus on their core products? Just look at XNA, Visual Studio, Live, etc. Microsoft provides the best platform development tools in the industry. They give out VS express for free!
Search and business services isn’t something new for Microsoft. True, they take competition too seriously, but at the same time, that’s the trait of every company interested in being a shareholders’ favorite.
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