By: windsorr

windsorr — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:50:33 +0000

Yes, I can believe those rumours. Total insanity. The thought should be “One Microsoft”. Anything else and the gentle decline into oblivion is inevitable.

I am not sure either. In the PC this is not a problem as the OEMs have nowhere else to go. I phones MSFT owns 90%+ of the market for its devices so again one can see how this is less of a problem than it might appear.

The other way to do it is to move more to the cloud. Then the service works on any platform and there is not much that the maker of the device of the platform the device runs can do about it!.

By: tatilsever

tatilsever — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:20:56 +0000

>”Microsoft has become a collection of separate businesses that exist in glorious isolation. They don’t talk. They don’t collaborate. They don’t share.”
On the other hand, there are rumors of products that got killed or starved off resources, because one of the big divisions deemed it a competitor. It may be better for MS for some divisions not to talk to each other.

I am not sure how MS is going to handle the inherent conflict between devices and services. One would rather keep services to only the devices that MS makes money off and the other division would rather maximize its reach by supporting every sizable platform. In a world where MS is not the supplier of the dominant ecosystem, this conflict will be tough to solve. It seems to be already holding back a touch optimized Office suite, creating an opening for new entrants. The best solution might be for a division to ignore the others unless a collaborative project would benefit both sides simultaneously at launch, instead of “help me become the dominant ecosystem again, so that your services can start reaching most of the prospective customers”.

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