Can Microsoft re-invent itself?
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The poor little giant had a lot of negative press lately. Gartner announced that Vista operating system is so “overweight” that it threatens to sink the company and technology and stock market pundits continue to speculate whether it can survive without infusion of Yahoo’s creativity. Yet today the company about to release the quarterly results which likely to exceed analysts expectations.
It takes a distance of five nautical miles for a large cargo ship, moving at a low speed, to stop or to complete a maneuver, and Microsoft is a very large “ship” and there are indicators that it started to turn. There are reports that it’s Dynamics Enterprise Software is met with considerable enthusiasm by resellers and customers as the company entered aggressively in on-demand marketplace to give the pioneers of that business model a run for their money. But even more impotently, the thought leadership in Microsoft started to change noticeably.
Perhaps the rumors of Microsoft’s imminent demise are a little premature.
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