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Is it weird that, given the surface, Windows 8, and the new xbox that I still think Microsoft is overvalued after the drop?
by JonSkeptic 13y ago
Is it weird that, given the surface, Windows 8, and the new xbox that I still think Microsoft is overvalued after the drop?
- yulaow 13y agothey have still enough gains in the professional market and also the cloud service (azure, office365, ...) but... yeah. They have failed totally in the tablet market atm having like 0% of the marketshare, they have a really tiny marketshare in the phone market (3-4%) also if, in their defense, i must say that windows phone is a nice os, and windows8 is not helping at all in the consumer-pc market. In the long term, at the moment, they are risking a lot.
- dragontamer 13y agoI dunno. Given the ability for Microsoft to just up their CAL licenses for their business buyers and pull revenue literally out of their ass... all the while shoving Windows 8 down their partners thoats?? Microsoft is still big. As a business, they remain profitable. They have plenty of time to turn the ship around. Their business decisions may have been terrible these past years, but they're still profitable, still making money nonetheless.
- yulaow 13y agoThe problem is the long term run. At the moment they are really profitable, but with the switching of the market from pc-leadership to tablet-smartphone-smartdevices leadershipt they are in big risks.
- babesh 13y agoThey could always do the IBM. Retrench, sell to corporate, cut costs. Apparently very profitable.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoKill your R&D and seed corn for short term gains? Very profitable today...but what about tomorrow?
- lotso 13y agoYes, because Windows and IEB are a fraction of Microsoft.