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Is Microsoft in disarry? Its stock has been steadily climbing for the past year. Windows 7 seems to be selling very well. From what I hear its enterprise and server divisions are doing quite well also. So as a company it seems to be doing quite well under Mr. Ballmer.
Windows Mobile, in the latest snapshot, doesn't seem to be doing well at all, but I don't think that means that Microsoft is in disarry. Who knows, maybe Windows Mobile isn't doing well by design. It's quite freezable that Microsoft has purposely let Windows Mobile slide as it puts most of its mobile resources into Windows Mobile 7. It really looks to me like WM7 is going to be about so much more then just selling licenses , and a lot more about selling services into a very wide mobile market.
I have a very hard time believing that Microsoft would let its mobile platform slide like it has without some other plans being laid for the future. Why would they spend over ten years loosing money and spend so much in resources to build Windows Mobile just to let it fizzle out just as mobility begins to really take off.
Dave
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