Incumbent versus innovator | Schizophrenia | Economist.com: "Put simply, New Microsoft is preparing for a day when Old Microsoft's Windows operating system and PC software no longer provide most of the firm's revenues. But for now, the company is torn between being an incumbent and an innovator."
I am not a computer expert, but I feel that open source is taking over more and more of Microsoft products. Firefox has just passed 67 million unique downloads, OpenOffice is reaching 10-15 percent of global market share as far as I know, and with the stable release of OpenOffice 2.0 I think the market share will go up dramatically.
"“It's all about trying to get Microsoft—from the software to the brand—out of the office, off the PC screen, and into the living room,” explains Paul Jackson of Forrester, a research firm."
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