October 29, 2005

Microsoft Says Profit Rose 24% - New York Times

Strong financial results from Microsoft, but they clearly must refocus themselves to counter their up-and-coming rivals Google and Yahoo. Particulalry telling is the quarter over quarter shrinkage of revenue from the MSN service while Google's profits exploded.
The Web 2.0 excitement surely must have Gates and his team gearing up for the needed changes. Microsoft has shown in the past they can do it when they focused on the Internet and created Internet Explorer now in version 6. I think they can do it again, but they'd best get a move on. Ray Ozzie, one of their key people is paying attention.

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