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Monday March 5, 2011

Microsoft was once a growth darling of Wall Street. Founder Bill Gates was touted as another college drop out billionaire. But like so many, DEC, WANG, Lotus, Supercalc, it seems to have lost its way. The stock stuck i the mid 20s, lots of cash, little to no debt, but no new products. Apple Soars at 360 but MSFT has no new tablet even though most all other firms do. 

As the author says Was Gates that important?  Ballmer keeps trying to emulate Apple with rollouts and even retail stores, but to sell what I wonder?

The lesson here is that innovation is hard to keep going. Has anyone seen a Zune on E Bay lately?

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  1. Phillip Garcia Avatar
    Phillip Garcia

    Even thought Microsoft’s stocks have dropped, I still believe that Microsoft products are one of the best for doing College homework and for small businesses. I really like Microsoft Word and Excel 2007, these products help me in my college homework. I have notices that both Palo Alto College and Texas A&M at San Antonio computer Labs have Microsoft product installed on their computers. I believe that Microsoft will rebound in the stock markets. The users of the products will decide whether or not to continue on buying Microsoft computer products. And people will still invest in Microsoft.

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  2. Dennis Elam Avatar
    Dennis Elam

    I like the Apple version of those programs, Keynote is preferable to Power Point, Msft has just not had enough competition.

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  3. William Holisky Avatar
    William Holisky

    I recently bought a MAC and the product has so many features that the Windows/Microsoft computer did not come with. I think Microsoft is in its lost orbit right now. MAC’s where like this in the late 90s as Window based computers were the most popular. Then when the iPod got popular so did the Macbook and its computers. People finally realized that Macs were superior to Windows based computers. I liked this article.

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