I think MS can not continue the way individualy, some companies get stay live MS, such as Adobe, ESET and..., and also many of game developers prefer DirectX 10.0 for gaming, however OpenGL is so better It needs time for make MS as a small and weak company also it's good to know many windows users (normal users) changed to Linux friends, and also for a developer windows is hell, BUT windows is virus programers and hackers Eden
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ArAsh M. Dehghani, Software Developer, NIIT
| 08 Jun 2009 08:33 AM +0000
Surely MIcrosoft is losing its old.When looking into the upcoming giants like adobe flex they are doing a great work when compared to Mivrosoft technologies
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Richu , Team Leader -(Technical), NeST
| 11 Apr 2009 05:12 PM +0000
I would say yes microsoft don't have the same hold on the market of operating systems and all that it was used to have. new players have entered in the market like Apple,Sun,IBM,COREL,Adobe who are competing and challenging them in every domain."IBM [Smartsuite] and Corel [WordPerfect Suite] have measurable
installed bases with their office productivity products. Apple may
distribute certain of its application software products with various
models of its PCs."
So definitely microsoft are facing challenges from all quarters and if they want to remain a leader in the market then they have to constanly come up with newer products.
What do you say?
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Sudeep Tarafdar, Senior Consultant, IBM
| 09 Apr 2009 11:36 AM +0000
Microsoft has always aped Apple, in terms of technology Apple is a lot better than MS, in terms of marketing, MS always wins.
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neha singh, Freelance Content Developer
| 07 Jan 2009 04:04 PM +0000
I guess it had to happen. all those who rooted for the information society must be thinking hard
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Mallika Rao, Lecturer, Dr. GRDCS
| 24 Dec 2008 04:04 PM +0000
I will tell you my friend that this version will also be a set back as soon as it is rolled out what MS will do is that it will Shut the product or services of Xp and will be the disaster atb that time. I am just waiting for this 7 thing to come out. Even the experts are predicting that MS is just going to go low in stock markets as well no more the gaint
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MAC P, Software Developer, L&T
| 23 Dec 2008 04:14 PM +0000
YES Microsoft can be soon challanged with MAC or LINUX in later years. The Version magic wont be working any more What MS does is brings out the common man fetures with user friendly experience with a lot of system resource utlization and impacting system and puting it in an ustable manner but I hope MAC is into it too much ahead and LINUX will soon be at that benchmark. LINUX is the stable software.
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MAC P, Software Developer, L&T
| 23 Dec 2008 04:05 PM +0000
Yes, its losing its hold on technology, check out Windows vista which is a disaster. No one likes it. The 'Wow' marketing campaign for Vista has been replaced with the more
desperate 'if you try it, you might not hate it'. Don't this show Microsoft is losing.
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Raji S, Business Analyst, SAP
| 19 Dec 2008 02:14 PM +0000
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How can anyone say that? If this argument raised just because of the open source revolution, any standard user will easily justify how much "Real" open source is available. Microsoft's place will be unbeatable among the user's community, until unless the common end user is able to think of other than "Windows" and MS applications. But for sure Microsoft has changed some of its strategies towards free and open source applications, which it should have done long before. This strategy will definitely add much more value to its reputation and improves the trust levels across its user community. Success and Failures are a part of growth. I agree that Vista is a failure but, Windows 7 is an immense success. XP successfully filled the gap between the release after Vista failed. We also can say that the failure of Vista may became a successful lead towards developing Windows 7. Windows 7 proved that Microsoft is still the best in its familiar technology. So deviating to other technologies is to show that Microsoft is not behind any technology and to provide hope to its lovers.
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Srinivas Kagitapu, Information Systems(MIS)-Manager, Zoom IT Solutions
| 07 Mar 2010 05:57 AM +0000
Microsoft is losing its ground to anyone. Products which they have developed amazing and user friendly. For Look and feel of product no one cant beat them.
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Vimal Kumar, team member, idbi
| 03 Mar 2010 05:45 PM +0000
Yes, lets not worry of the loss MS got in its Longhorn (Vista) project. They are set to bounce back with their latest Win 7. Moreover, it is difficult for the Open Source community to take over this monopoly at least till another decade.
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Sirish , Senior Quality Engineer, AMD
| 29 Jul 2009 04:47 PM +0000
Harshil i agree with you.Even today most of the PCs and laptops have microsoft's operating system and the newly launched web-browser by microsoft-IE 8 has also gain quite a market share.So definitely microsoft has not lose its hold in the field of technology and there is a long way their competitors have to traverse if they want to displace microsoft from the top position.
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Radhakrishna Marar, Business Analyst, Oracle
| 27 Apr 2009 06:51 AM +0000
Microsoft main strength is the amazing array of applications and the developer ecosystem it has developed around its operating systems.
Also i recent read an article by jack gannsle where he said "Perfection is penalized. Windows is hardly ideal, yet Microsoft is by
any measure the most successful software company of all time.
Capitalism doesn't, it seems, reward getting it right. Profits seem to
come from "good enough.""
So as long as they keep being just good enough and there is nothing pathbreaking or disruptive to challenge their supremacy in OS market,they will hold .
Also MS has diversified into many other areans where it is doing a commendable job developing world class applications and enabling frameworks like .net.
for example i really like the MS Songsmith developed by microsoft reasearch.
i think MS is here to stay.
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Saud Rehman, Post Graduate Student at University of Sheffield
| 24 Mar 2009 10:23 AM +0000
It is time of competition so it may seem to us that Microsoft is losing its hold on technology as the company is providing us latest technolgy very fast as per our need and in some of there products there were some problems. But to overcome it has also provided with its updates which overcomes those problems. Microsoft provides relaible products which is also proved in many studies that people has started migrating back on Microsoft Technologies. Some people also say that Micosoft products are costly but if we see for long run dive then we will find it cheap s compared to others. Maintaing costs of Microsoft products is less and the products are user friendly.
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Maninder Singh Tuli, CEO/MD/Director, XLANTIC SOLUTIONS
| 03 Mar 2009 08:45 PM +0000
Hi Friend,
This never indicates there downturn, the people are also the cause for it. People dont want to accept the change - nomatter who ever tells them. The fear of change has to be evaded. Also due to recession, companies are not ready to buy the licence for the new technology.
Microsoft has launched campaign for Sunset XP - and asks the users to migrate to Vista / Windows 7 ASAP. They are going to stop the support for XP. Then what choice is left for user. This is called forced migration.
-Yuva
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Yuvaraj , Software Developer, SuDel
| 28 Feb 2009 05:17 AM +0000
Microsoft has come with many technologies and all those technologies have proved that Microsoft is ahead of other technologies. Microsoft has come with MOSS which is big hit in the market and now a days it's requirement is going up fast also with Web technologies Microsoft has proved that they are the best. When Microsoft has started ASP at that time JSP was in the market and after that ASP had replaced JSP also new technology which is ASP.NET and .NET technologies with Compact Framework is big hit. No other companies compete with ASP.NET. Also Win CE 5.0/6.0 is a big hit by Microsoft. And currently Microsoft is ahead of all other companies.
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Harshil Shukla, Software Developer, Gateway Technolabs Pvt. Ltd
| 13 Jan 2009 10:02 AM +0000
I don't know what makes someone to think that MS is loosing the grip..I agree it has a temperory dip in performance becoz of Vista since it has lot of focus areas ...can anyone tell me any other company name which has such a wide variety of solutions available from small organisations to large organisations...??
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Rohit Goel, Technology Consultant (Infra)
| 05 Jan 2009 01:59 PM +0000
MS is not loosing any foothold in the market, Infact it is even more stronger. Vista may be a disaster but with products like Server 2008, Sharepoint, Dynamics and even more they are gaining a lot of momentum. There's lot of focus on "7" which I guess will be far better than other OS'es. Having worked extensively on Non-windows & Windows platform the only problem with MS is "Reliablity"..Hope MS works on that one!
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Harish Kumar, Sharepoint Consultant, Microsoft India (R&D)
| 03 Jan 2009 04:48 PM +0000
Microsoft can be soon challanged with MAC or LINUX in later years. The Version magic wont be working any more What MS does is brings out the common man fetures with user friendly experience with a lot of system resource utlization and impacting system and puting it in an ustable manner but I hope MAC is into it too much ahead and LINUX will soon be at that benchmark. LINUX is the stable software.
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MAC P, Software Developer, L&T
| 23 Dec 2008 04:07 PM +0000
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