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I agree that MSFT might still want to bother with Windows 7, but maybe they should give it away as well in order to drive traffic to Bing?

• brudgers 15y ago
  The idea that Microsoft should imitate Google and go wholesale into a revenue model based on advertising sales ignores Microsoft's fundamental strength - the trust upon which its B2B relationships (the crown jewels) rely. Microsoft has a customer base which is likely to be stable over the next five to ten years - Google's customers would abandon it in a heartbeat if consumer habits change and Google's platform becomes less cost effective than a competitor's (Google has the same sort of vulnerabilities that newspapers had to Craigslist).