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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Microsoft HAD the history. But when is the last time that happened. They did take the Video Game market only to have their butts getting kicked by the likes of the Wii.
Microsoft took over computers by doing what linux does now. Give away or low price their products to take out the comp. Remember Netscape was a paid product. If it was free like Firefox IE would have never caught up cause everyone knew Netscape. But why pay $30 for something that you can get in the PC for free?
But they will never beat google, cause google gives you the better product that everyone knows for free! Plus MS is bias. you will find that sometimes searches for products that compete against MS products come up funny in searches. (like Linux products)
So I hope MS stays just the way they are. I will keep using FF and the Google search box.