Re: Microsoft is in deep trouble and now it is going to die

In article <2007042120510316807-jcrnospam@nospammaccom>,
John C. Randolph <jcr.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 04/21/07, cathead9 <cathead9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39087

...at long last. Microsoft is destined to be remembered this way:
"Hey, remember that company that made a buttload of money with all that
crappy software back in the stone age of computing?"

- cathead, vox et praeteria nihil.

I don't see them dying, but rather following a path much like IBM in
the 1980's. Their stock will lose around 30 to 40 percent of its
value, and eventually the institutional shareholders will vote Ballmer
out. It may be far too late to turn the company around by that point,
but MS has enough cash to just buy a couple of viable software
businesses.

-jcr

MS has never had that "vision" thing, but has been able to enter
emerging markets and capitalize on their ability to execute (and tie to
Windows). It's pretty predictable strategy that seems to yield fewer and
fewer dividends with each try.

The 80's and 90's were such meteoric decades that MS will surely suffer
by comparison from now on. Bill will walk away and disassociate himself
from MS' descent into typical moribund corporatehood. Unless some rogue
faction can rise from within and lead the company in a new direction.
Might not be a bad thing.

Look forward to the day when we look at Apple and MS without such
religious fervor. Apple's renewed fiscal health and growing mainstream
acceptance will hopefully bring some balance to the rhetoric for all,
but the "lost causes".
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