Microsoft continues to be kicked across the block inside the Net company for heading on fifteen decades. Now it truly is possibly payback time.
While everybody else hunkers down and fights to survive,
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(Google, furthermore,
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Who could Microsoft get? Some obvious names, and many smaller not-so-obvious ones.
But the first thing Microsoft needs to do if it truly is to succeed long-term in the World wide web organization is build a central consumer brand that it can hang everything else off of. (Alternatively, it could focus on the back again end, 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,
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The big consumer Web brands other than Google include:
Yahoo AOL Facebook MSN, et al (Microsoft needs to consolidate ALL its World wide web brands into one particular. This one's probably the most prominent).
Microsoft could probably acquire Yahoo, AOL, and Facebook today for $20 billion of income. 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,
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If Microsoft isn't willing to put all its weight behind a single brand, it will probably fail regardless of what it buys. This continues to be Microsoft's Achilles heel for your past 15 years--an unwillingness to commit to one particular Net 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 World wide web operations OUT of Microsoft and INTO Yahoo and then build everything around that brand as a separate public company. We think Steve Ballmer is congenitally predisposed against this approach, however, 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,
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