Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Jun 2006 20:29 UTC
A lot of news on Bill Gates's stepping back. Mary Jo Foley wonders if Microsoft will still be the same after Gates has left, while also compiling a list of his 10 biggest Microsoft flops. Elsewhere, Bill Gates's successor, Craig Mundie, talks to eWeek. In addition, Cnet features an interview with both Mundie as well as Ray Ozzie: "Bill Gates leaves some pretty big shoes to fill. Think of Ray Ozzie as the left shoe and Craig Mundie as the right one."
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RE: Problems Facing Microsoft
by smitty_one_each on Fri 16th Jun 2006 22:44
in reply to "Problems Facing Microsoft"
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My prediction is that they'll use the XBox(whatever) to prototype an OS that doesn't suck, then give it some backwards compatibility server features, and that'll be what follows Vista. IOW, load-shed the cruft, the way FOSS does on a far more steady basis.
But shall it have mattered? Likely, no. Continuing maturity of GNU/Linux distros will eat Redmond's lunch.
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2006-02-08
* 11 billion or so shares issued over the years
* Stock price in for past five year decline
* Revenue growth declining
* OpenDocument/open format movement spreading
* Plummeting PC hardware prices
* Feature saturation for office software
* Linux
* Open source/commodity software putting downward pressure on Microsoft software/services prices
* Internal staff dissatisfaction/desertion
* Attempts to create new revenue streams like the Xbox failing
* Years of poor engineering choices coming back to haunt them and making it more and more difficult to modernize their operating system
Whoever comes in to replace Gates and Balmer have their work cut out for them.