



I. Bill Gates: No Comeback for me




Bill Gates


II. Steve Ballmer: Microsoft is Strong







Sources: T-Break, Microsoft

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RE: Fire Balmer
By Reclaimer77 on 10/10/2012 6:11:35 PM , Rating: 2
How about being a major contentder in the gaming console market is one.

Hmmm I thought it was Bill Gates who envisioned that and dumped billions of dollars into the Xbox and Xbox Live project while everyone was doubting him?

How about you have the courage to bring up that the decisions which lead to the Xbox 350 having a 50%+ failure rate happened under Balmer?

Bing is gaining slightly on Google but not going to overtake it anytime soon.

??? The only thing Bing has done is cost MS over a BILLION a year in losses, every year. Are you serious?

RE: Fire Balmer
By Mitch101 on 10/10/2012 10:05:40 PM , Rating: 2
The cost of admission on them is high if you want to compete. You cant limp in and expect to compete against and established product line or service. For anyone to compete in the search engine industry you have to go big or go home. Bing is really good when I remember to use it but Im so programmed to type google its hard to switch out. But I much prefer to use bing for airflight info and image searches.

I believe I read Google makes 3 Billion a month from search advertising so if Microsoft spends a Billion to grab 5% away from Google that translates to 1.8 Billion in search revenue for Microsoft. Thats a lot of incentive to get it right but your not going to do it spending a few thousand and limping in.

You cant tell me 36 Billion a year on search when you have tons of cash reserves your not going to take a stab at it especially when you have a good product.

Sure lets bring up the 360 RROD. Microsoft didnt back away from thier mistake they took responsibility and for that I have brand loyalty even though Im still on my first 360. Im sure some of those were victims of poor air flow placement but Microsoft put in a replacement program and stood by thier users. Sure they could have made more money if they didnt have a design issue but they didnt run from it. Ask those who got stuck with the similar issue from the NVIDIA chipsets that didnt get any coverage. There is a lot to be said about Brand Loyalty. Look at Sony sure the user base for linux was small but they didnt need to take it away and the same for backwards support. Im sure a lot of those people wont be trusting what Sony says. That might only be lets say a million people but thats a Million people telling others to buy the next X-Box instead because they were wronged by Sony. Who knows maybe more will defect to the next PS because of the RROD but maybe Microsoft saved them because they did make good on console replacement.

Every company can produce a dud the thing is Microsoft can afford to pee away a Billion. Eventually it pays off for them. Xbox 1 didnt sell compared to the PS2 but the 360 held its own.

Not all Android devices are winners ask most recently HTC's tablet and Apple has many duds in thier past too. Nobody is immune to it.

