Of all the years I have been on this planet have never seen Microsoft get so desperate or feel the need to compete at a great level. Now that it is becoming more and more prevalent that they are no longer the big kid on the block anymore they are going on all out attacks now against Google and Apple. This is all because of their steadily declining market share.
Market Share lossage and to who
- Internet browser(Internet Explorer) – lossage to Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari
- Operating system (Windows) – lossage to Apple Mac OS X and Linux
- Search Engine (live.com) – lossage to Google and Yahoo
Not even mentioning other competitors such as Adobe (Multimedia) Flash vs Microsoft Silverlight and Sony (Game Consoles) Ps3 vs Microsoft XBOX 360 vs Nintendo Wii, Microsoft is really feeling the effects of spreading themselves thinner and thinner and producing products of lesser and lesser quality. Even some of the competitors who they are going against have a focus and produce so very nice products. Now they are spending more money creating attack ads against Apple and Google. People see it as strategy but I see it as a act of desperation before the giant falls. If you want a good website for identifying market share go here to see the information for yourself.
What can Microsoft do?
Being that they still have the upper hand in most of their markets they need to create reliable products that cannot be compromised so easily. Firstly with windows it is known for viruses and its price. There are other products out there that are free and becoming easier to use for example linux. Or have little to no viruses and good quality, people go to apple mac os x. So if they can increase the quality of their product, include a higher level of security and speed and present it well I think we can see a nice increase in their market share. To even further back it up ask people who played around with Windows 7. They are impressed with the usability and speed which has increased alot of people’s curiosity and confidence. Now if they can launch a full-spectrum campaign on increasing quality of their products and decrease prices on licenses I guarantee we will see change in market share but only going up.
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Hey, I found this post while searching for help with fixing Microsoft Silverlight. I’ve recently changed browsers from Google Chrome to Mozilla Firefox 3.1. Now I seem to have a issue with loading websites that use Microsoft Silverlight. Every time I go on a site that needs Microsoft Silverlight, my computer freezes and I get a “npctrl.dll” error. I cannot seem to find out how to fix the problem. Any aid getting Microsoft Silverlight to function is greatly appreciated! Thanks
That error that you are getting seems to be a very common problem around the internet with no solution. My recommendation would be to try to reinstall it if that doesn’t work I would continue to use google chrome until Microsoft releases an update or fix for it.