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Microsoft realises it's in trouble
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| Microsoft's announcement last week that it plans to open its own chain of
| retail stores "to create a better PC and Microsoft retail purchase
| experience" might be viewed as just the company's next move in its continuing
| marketing competition with Apple, but it might also be understood as more
| than that. It could be a sign that the company has realised it's in trouble.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft was forced to abandon some of its more egregrious practices with
| respect to preload agreements in 1994, and - as software alternatives based
| on Linux have become available - a few of the large PC manufacturers are
| offering those to buyers. However, one result of such agreements and other
| anticompetitive practices was that the company avoided or stifled effective
| competition from other operating systems and applications for most of its
| early history.
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft's failure to deliver a capable, snappy and attractive successor for
| Windows XP in Windows Vista opened a window of opportunity, so to speak, for
| competing operating systems. And as luck would have it, Apple's Mac OS X and
| new versions of major Linux brands were ready to take advantage of the
| situation.
|
| [...]
|
| Increasingly these days, paralegals, engineers and architects, as well as
| management consultants and marketing people, might be found to have different
| operating systems running on two or even three different machines. One might
| be a Windows machine, if their work requires it, but it's just as likely that
| they might have a desktop running some flavour of Linux and an Apple Macbook
| running OS X, or maybe a desktop and a netbook, both running Linux.
|
| Last month web metrics firm Netapp released some statistics it gathered based
| on 160 million visitors to its hosted domains. It said that Windows' market
| share is now below 90 per cent at 88.26 per cent, while Apple Mac OS X market
| share has reached nearly 10 per cent at 9.93 per cent, with the rest
| accounted for by Linux. The Linux figure might be lower than its actual
| market share on individual computer users' systems, but that's what Netapp
| reported.
|
| [...]
|
| That Apple's gaining market share can't be very comforting right now to those
| occupying Microsoft's executive suite, nor can the growth of Linux awareness
| and acceptance in the general consumer population. Welcome to the real world,
| folks.
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http://www.itexaminer.com/microsoft-realises-its-in-trouble.aspx
Recent:
Microsoft should have made deeper cuts, analysts contend
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| The unprecedented layoffs and other cutbacks announced yesterday by Microsoft
| haven't appeased Wall Street. Microsoft shares are down more than 6 percent
| since the news came out, and some analysts assert that the company needed to
| go much further.
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_should_have_made_deeper_cuts_analysts_contend38239219.html
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