http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/04/20/an-amusing-diagram-that-shows-two-important-realities-for-microsoft/ Keeping you in the loop with up-to-date Linux news. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:46:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/04/20/an-amusing-diagram-that-shows-two-important-realities-for-microsoft/#comment-4469 Robert Pogson Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:19:36 +0000 http://www.linuxloop.com/news/?p=251#comment-4469 M$ needs monopoly and fixed prices to continue. $3 in China and $300 elsewhere is not sustainable. GNU/Linux will eat them for lunch in all the emerging markets that have not had PCs yet. These markets are very price-sensitive. They will buy low-end sytems that run GNU/Linux very well and will not run Vista. They will not pay twice as much for software as for hardware. Within a year or two, M$ will become a normal corporation competing in the market place or it will die or retreat to a US niche. Either way, market share and revenue for OS / server/ Office will fall substantially withing two years. They can try to diversify into Yahoo! but that is a desperation move. I too, think M$ will shrink drastically. If they blow their/our cash on Yahoo! they could be a shadow of themselves in five years. If they keep their/our cash, it could take ten years. M$ needs monopoly and fixed prices to continue. $3 in China and $300 elsewhere is not sustainable. GNU/Linux will eat them for lunch in all the emerging markets that have not had PCs yet. These markets are very price-sensitive. They will buy low-end sytems that run GNU/Linux very well and will not run Vista. They will not pay twice as much for software as for hardware. Within a year or two, M$ will become a normal corporation competing in the market place or it will die or retreat to a US niche. Either way, market share and revenue for OS / server/ Office will fall substantially withing two years. They can try to diversify into Yahoo! but that is a desperation move. I too, think M$ will shrink drastically. If they blow their/our cash on Yahoo! they could be a shadow of themselves in five years. If they keep their/our cash, it could take ten years.

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