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Monday, July 9, 2012

Microsoft was entrepreneurial?

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship

In the special report of Bless Miralles, it was described that Microsoft being entrepreneurial.

Maybe at the time when Bill Gates was hands on at MS, it was entrepreneurial.  Now that Bill Gates is hand on at Melinda Bill Gates Foundation, and with Steve Balmer at he helm, we wonder whether MS is still entrepreneurial:

Here are my observations:

l.  MS OS is rather slow.  Compare that with the superfast OS of apple.

2.  MS was late in the tablet market.  Although it had a working model, it could not catch up because of its MS - DOS which is slow;  they missed this one.

3.  It did not trend well with the market:  as with Itunes of Apple, and the migration of users to mobile devices.  Although it paid $200 million to Nokia to come with MS DOS phone, I am not sure whether:

       l.  They could still catch up;

      2.  Riding with the  a lame horse like Nokia (being left by Apple and Samsung and other Android phones)

4.  Riding with the freemium market.  Everybody is into this.  All the successful net business are into open source and free environment:   Linux, Firefox.  There are more developers in the open source and who come out with better and free products.  Firefox is better than Explorer (or even Google Chrome)

Most of web developers are into Linux and or other platforms.

Is Microsoft creating the market or being driven to the ground by upstarts, more entrepreneurial companies.  It may have command of the market, or very profitable, but for how long.....

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