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The combination of PCs, tablets, phones, search, consumer services, living room entertainment, a compelling software and server stack, and the best R&D in the w
by lotso 13y ago
The combination of PCs, tablets, phones, search, consumer services, living room entertainment, a compelling software and server stack, and the best R&D in the world gives them the potential to do things other companies can't do.
Microsoft is incredibly well suited to compete in the future. Although it is easy to dismiss Microsoft due to their stumbling in the consumer market in the past couple years, you have to realize this is going to be a decades long battle for Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Out of those 4 companies, I'd say Apple is the one who needs to diversify their profits and rapidly improve their ability to create services.
- krichman 13y agoMicrosoft does have incredible R&D. If they did some serious culling of whatever bureaucratic cancer has infected the company, they could probably make some compelling B2C products. I bet their B2B products will sustain them for a while, though.
- bilbo0s 13y ago"...and the best R&D in the world..." Xerox had the best R&D in the world as well. (PARC) What MS needs is that ability to turn R&D into products. Of the 4 companies... I would say only Apple has the DEMONSTRATED ability to turn R&D into products. I would say MS is the CLEAR leader of the 4 in terms of raw R&D. Google really does look more and more like a one trick pony. And, curiously enough, Amazon is the company I could see getting its tentacles into the most parts of the global economy over the long term. (Well... Amazon and Facebook) But all of that ignores unexpected external influences... like the NSA scandal.