Can Microsoft re-invent itself?
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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perhaps the company’s actual (rather than anticipated) performance changes your opinion? Pretty much everyone I know has moved to Apple, Ubuntu or will swap out of windows/office the moment a superior alternative is available. Simultaneously poisoning the water in which their customers swim and producing mediocre/crappy products is not exactly a winning combo. My company will soon be completely MSFT-free and everyone is looking forward to it (Google Apps, etc.).
I have seen a few attempts of wholesale escape from the Office squashed by users rebellion. Interestingly enough these were high tech companies, and rebellious users were software engineers. Google produces some mediocre products too, and it is not alone.
“Conformism is an application of the least effort rule and most often supports stupid ideas, those that do not require too much effort at researching and thinking. Politicians love it as an opportunity to pander to the crowds. Microsoft bashing is conformism. Human cause of global warming is another. The Web is the strongest conformism spreader ever but it also is the greatest opportunity to fight it and, as individuals, we should.”
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