Why Does Microsoft Really Want Yahoo?
A very nice analysis from Gartner:
“Microsoft’s Windows product is collapsing and must make radical changes to its operating system or risk becoming a has-been.
They specifically pointed out the slow adoption rate by businesses - just 6% to date - and the fact that the Vista code base is so large. That means changes take years, and only high end computers can really take advantage of it anyway.”
I, for one, find it very hard and annoying to use Windows Vista. I’ve tried to downgrade my Laptop’s OS to Windows XP but the drivers were not available. I soon found out that a lot of the new laptops these days are built around Vista and OS downgrades are near impossible.
Even more worrisome is that Windows XP official support may just end this year (2008).
Based on the current timeline and our own expectations for the launch of Windows Vista, we estimate Windows XP Professional Mainstream Support ending in late December 2008
This has driven people to fight for continued Windows XP availability. Simply put, Vista sucks.
Take, for instance, Galen Gruman. A longtime technology journalist, Gruman is more accustomed to writing about trends than starting them.
But after talking to Windows users for months, he realized his distaste for Vista and strong attachment to XP were widespread.
Microsoft’s other problem is the fact the a lot of desktop applications are now easily and freely available online. Its claim to office productivity software is being eaten up.
Other companies, such as Google, have moved into Microsoft’s traditional market by offering similar products and services to the technology giant but for free, across the web. Google Docs, a suite of word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs, is a direct competitor to Microsoft Office, but can be accessed on any computer connected to the internet, and is free to use.
What’s the fastest growing Media Company now? Google. It’s got the First Quarter Profit numbers to prove it. To Microsoft, the answer is really simple:
Buy Yahoo now while it still can. It needs Yahoo for its guaranteed survival.
MAGNIFICENT ELY The Technopreneur: This is my blog on usability, design, technopreneurship - with a dash of love, life and success thoughts. (Jozzua was my old 'telnet days' chat name).
someone also said that they might want to buy yahoo so they could close it down, a very expensive way of closing down something… I’d like to believe it’s because they’re at the brink of desperation and they have this belief that their products will improve as soon as they got yahoo…
note: my headlines in the homepage are clickable na! :)) sinabihan ka talaga lol
BTW, you should take out the link of your header in single.php, that’s usability error too!
LOL.
No its not!
Mae, Oh if only someone made me a design! HEHEHE