Office 2007 Product Key Microsoft's Revenge

Microsoft has been kicked across the block in the Net enterprise for going on fifteen many years. Now it is likely payback time.,Office 2007 Product Key

While everybody else hunkers down and fights to survive, Microsoft will get to sit again and decide who to buy. When it decides, it might dig right into a $20 billion income pile that can almost replenish alone this year with $15 billion of no cost money flow. Nobody else, which includes Google, will acquire this a lot of a relative advantage from your global economic collapse.

(Google, furthermore, is now hamstrung by alert regulators--thanks,Buy Office 2007, in portion, to Microsoft's lobbying--and is focused on cutting fees and narrowing its ambitions. These should keep it distracted for your subsequent few many years.)

Who could Microsoft buy? Some obvious names,Windows 7 Serial, and many smaller not-so-obvious ones.

But the first thing Microsoft needs to do if it really is to succeed long-term in the Internet company is build a central consumer brand that it may hang everything else off of. (Alternatively, it can focus on the again end,Office 2010 Home And Business, via search and other technologies, but this likely won't be as profitable. The vast majority of Google's immense profit comes from searches on its own site, not third-party sites, and the same will hold true for Microsoft).

The big consumer Net brands other than Google include:
Yahoo AOL Facebook MSN, et al (Microsoft needs to consolidate ALL its Internet brands into one particular. This one's probably the most prominent).
Microsoft could probably acquire Yahoo, AOL, and Facebook today for $20 billion of dollars. It could then consolidate them under a single brand and build a strong alternative for advertisers vis a vis Google. (Vastly easier said than done, but possible.)

If Microsoft isn't willing to put all its weight behind a single brand, it will probably fail regardless of what it buys. This has become Microsoft's Achilles heel for your past 15 years--an unwillingness to commit to 1 Internet brand and strategy--and we're not optimistic that it will be able to get out of its own way this time either.

We still think the smart play here would be for Microsoft to spin its Web operations OUT of Microsoft and INTO Yahoo and then build everything close to that brand as a separate public company. We think Steve Ballmer is congenitally predisposed against this approach, however,Microsoft Office 2007 Key, even though it would likely be a great move for Microsoft shareholders (who would own most of the new Yahoo AND the original Microsoft).

But, in any event, as the Valley goes into the fetal position, Microsoft's relative position is growing stronger. And we imagine this is not lost on the folks in Redmond.