Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th Jan 2007 16:48 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
Bungled branding of the new Windows Live Internet services has hurt Microsoft and could affect its chance to play catch-up with Google, analysts said on Friday. On Thursday, Microsoft lowered its sales forecast for its Internet services business for the full year from 11 percent to between 3 percent and 8 percent. It also acknowledged that its search market share has dropped. Windows Live Search saw its searches drop nearly 10 percent from a year ago, while Google's rose more than 22 percent, according to figures released this week from Nielsen/NetRatings. Google has 50.8 percent market share, followed by Yahoo at 23.6 percent and Microsoft with only 8.4 percent.
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We're getting dangerously close to the point where Google has no competition
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I disagree. Microsoft is more dangerous than Google. Google has to continue doing their best. Unlike an OS, it's trivial to change one's default search engine. You don't even need a guru. You just do it.
Online office apps are harder. But it remains to be seen just how important that market really will be. I'm guessing not very.
There are just too many reasons *not* to use such a service. (Most businesses have too many secrets to trust such a service, and Aunt Martha's not going to be comfortable trusting her Secret Recipe For Marble Fudge to it either.)
Besides, MS has a history of coming from way behind and then crushing the opponent that once had such a head start on them.
But to be fair, I should give the Google guys credit for being smarter than, for example, the Netscape guys.
Edited 2007-01-28 18:31