Microsoft has long been kicked throughout the block inside the Net enterprise for going on fifteen decades. Now it truly is potentially payback time.
While everybody else hunkers down and fights to survive, Microsoft will get to sit back again and make a decision who to purchase. When it decides, it could dig into a $20 billion money pile which will practically replenish alone this yr with $15 billion of totally free money movement. Nobody else,
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Windows 7 X64, will obtain this significantly of a relative advantage in the world-wide financial collapse.
(Google, in addition,
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Who could Microsoft acquire? Some obvious names, and many smaller not-so-obvious ones.
But the first thing Microsoft needs to do if it's to succeed long-term inside the World wide web organization is build a central consumer brand that it can hang everything else off of. (Alternatively, it can focus on the back end, via search and other technologies, but this likely won't be as profitable. The vast majority of Google's immense profit comes from searches on its own site, not third-party sites, and the same will hold true for Microsoft).
The big consumer Internet brands other than Google include:
Yahoo AOL Facebook MSN, et al (Microsoft needs to consolidate ALL its Net brands into one particular. This one's probably the most prominent).
Microsoft could probably get Yahoo, AOL, and Facebook today for $20 billion of income. It could then consolidate them under a single brand and build a strong alternative for advertisers vis a vis Google. (Vastly easier said than done, but possible.)
If Microsoft isn't willing to put all its weight behind a single brand, it will probably fail regardless of what it buys. This has long been Microsoft's Achilles heel for your past fifteen years--an unwillingness to commit to a single World wide web brand and strategy--and we're not optimistic that it will be able to get out of its own way this time either.
We still think the smart play here would be for Microsoft to spin its Net operations OUT of Microsoft and INTO Yahoo and then build everything all around that brand as a separate public company. We think Steve Ballmer is congenitally predisposed against this approach, however, even though it would likely be a great move for Microsoft shareholders (who would own most of the new Yahoo AND the original Microsoft).
But,
microsoft Office 2010 keygen, in any event, as the Valley goes into the fetal position, Microsoft's relative position is growing stronger. And we imagine this is not lost on the folks in Redmond.