Chaos at Microsoft.

Wake up Bill! Redmond we have a problem. Brutal competition, open source challenges, stock price plunged. Microsoft is in great trouble. Signs of damages to Microsoft are everywhere. The relentless advance of he free open source software. The competition and advantages of internet based companies like Google and Yahoo! have in the web.Microsoft’s stronghold desktop software is under siege. Apache dominances in web servers represent a huge lost opportunity. Open source such as Linux and Apache has been a major factor in the recent slowing of the beast. Google’s dominance in search gives it commanding lead in online advertising, which Microsoft is playing a catch up with. The beast needs to fight back. But to get a piece of actions, it would need to make some radical changes. Despite it travails Microsoft still acted as if the internet universe revolves around it. Microsoft needed some face lift. Its need improvement of its search services as well as email and web contents. Microsoft must get the attention of an average user. The attention of an average user is what fuels this internet engine (online ads), it just the user that everybody’s in the web fighting over. Its software products need some kind of intellectual property licensing program. Allows selected customers right to view its source code something Microsoft never done before. It must find ways how to make business with opens source. The Microsoft-Novell pact was a good example, which included of course a marketing collaboration. The beast must find ways to make Linux and Windows server products work together better. This was a top priority for customers as they consolidate their computing into fewer machines. These are really big strategic problems and figuring out how to fight back is what Microsoft must think first. Typically Microsoft would have taken the hits and kept powering forward. That is Microsoft way.