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Is Microsoft Spread Too Thin? | |
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| Time: 15:05 EST/20:05 GMT | News Source: NewsFactor | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Microsoft has been extremely successful, if not entirely sportsmanlike, in establishing a dominant hold over its core market. However, the company's ventures into new territory generally have had less stunningly positive outcomes. And when a software company starts to offer watches, one has to wonder if it is starting to lose sight of its core business. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/24/2003 6:43:11 PM |
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matgarnz - "console users are religiously loyal to their particular vendor"
Actually, no they aren't. That was how Sony was able to take the market away from Nintendo, and Nintendo took it from Atari and so on and so forth. |
| #2 By 7390 (63.211.44.114) at 1/24/2003 6:59:12 PM |
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#3 your points are valid but that would leave MS as a hostage of that console manufacturer. And I am sure that they threaten to use Linux as leverage. Also MS sees the xbox as the gateway into the living room. MS has the full control of the hardware/software andn will drive the xbox in interesting directions. Why chance that to the discretion of a third party?
I am sure that once xbox has a strong enough foot hold that MS will farm it out or figure out a way to shift manufacturing cost onto another company (Dell or some other oem). |
| #3 By 3653 (65.190.70.73) at 1/24/2003 8:33:40 PM |
| matgarnz, what you propose is not a new idea. Sega's Dreamcast console was built on top of Windows CE. |
| #4 By 61 (65.32.170.1) at 1/25/2003 11:49:11 PM |
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zooker:
Ummm.... no, makeing software is what made MS successful.... Microsoft didn't even enter the hardware market until somewhat recently. I think you need a history lesson. |
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