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I don't understand the diversity of their products, it seems like a lack of focus, and driven by a fear of missing out on the Next Big Thing. I think they shou

I don't understand the diversity of their products, it seems like a lack of focus, and driven by a fear of missing out on the Next Big Thing. I think they should focus on 2 products: 1. Office software: have clients on ALL popular operating systems including iOS and Android, and move as many customers as possible to Office 365 and Outlook.com (and move that to Windows Azure). 2 Windows operating system(s): that would be desktop, tablet and server including Windows Azure, not sure if Windows Phone makes sense. Spin off Xbox (and related Kinect products) as a separate company. It's a strong enough 'living room' brand, and I doubt if customers really care that it's a Microsoft product. Make technology from devdiv as open and easily accessible as possible. E.g. give the drugs away for free as in beer, and also free as in freedom where it makes sense. Ultimately, this should drive adoption of products 1 and 2 listed above, and that's where Microsoft should be making money. Not sure what to do about Bing. Google needs competition, but I'm not sure if Microsoft is the right company to be doing this (search engine, maps, pushing ads). Is it profitable? If it's not by now, then when are they going to take their losses and quit that game?

jetti 14y ago
"Spin off Xbox (and related Kinect products) as a separate company. It's a strong enough 'living room' brand, and I doubt if customers really care that it's a Microsoft product." Kinect came out of Microsoft Research. If you spin off the Xbox division as their own company, I'm not sure how that relationship would still exist or how that would work. "Make technology from devdiv as open and easily accessible as possible. E.g. give the drugs away for free as in beer, and also free as in freedom where it makes sense. Ultimately, this should drive adoption of products 1 and 2 listed above, and that's where Microsoft should be making money." The developer tools makes a decent amount of money for Microsoft, far much more than their entertainment division does. Not sure why they would give that up. You can see Q1 for 2013 here: http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/FinancialStatements/FY13/Q1/SegmentRevenues.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn... Notice that Business Division brought in the most and then Server and Tools came in right behind that.

jetti 14y ago

"Spin off Xbox (and related Kinect products) as a separate company. It's a strong enough 'living room' brand, and I doubt if customers really care that it's a Microsoft product." Kinect came out of Microsoft Research. If you spin off the Xbox division as their own company, I'm not sure how that relationship would still exist or how that would work. "Make technology from devdiv as open and easily accessible as possible. E.g. give the drugs away for free as in beer, and also free as in freedom where it makes sense. Ultimately, this should drive adoption of products 1 and 2 listed above, and that's where Microsoft should be making money." The developer tools makes a decent amount of money for Microsoft, far much more than their entertainment division does. Not sure why they would give that up. You can see Q1 for 2013 here: http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/FinancialStatements/FY13/Q1/SegmentRevenues.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn... Notice that Business Division brought in the most and then Server and Tools came in right behind that.