Topic: Microsoft has "Walmart disease" ??

[Nemesis]

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When a company hits a growth stall, 93% of the time it will be unable to maintain even a 2% growth rate. 75% of the time we can expect it will fall into a no growth, or declining, revenue environment.  And 70% of the time it will lose at least half its market capitalization. That’s because the market has shifted, and the business is no longer selling what customers really want. No matter how hard management tries to recapture the past, customers have decided to move on.

I've said for a while that Microsoft was approaching market saturation and that when they reached that point they may very well have a hard time dealing with a "replacement market" and attaining "corporate maturity". This looks to be a variation on that.

[Kreeargh]

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When a company hits a growth stall, 93% of the time it will be unable to maintain even a 2% growth rate. 75% of the time we can expect it will fall into a no growth, or declining, revenue environment.  And 70% of the time it will lose at least half its market capitalization. That’s because the market has shifted, and the business is no longer selling what customers really want. No matter how hard management tries to recapture the past, customers have decided to move on.

I've said for a while that Microsoft was approaching market saturation and that when they reached that point they may very well have a hard time dealing with a "replacement market" and attaining "corporate maturity". This looks to be a variation on that. Its like asking a buyer of an antivirus to wait 4 months to fix the latest virus and worm update.

I hope some one linked with microsoft reads this and trys to use 1% of the thoughts posted here may be it will make millions  for their company?

Microsoft has a NON finish the product  before release issue is most of the problem. Updates and add on fixes dont make a comsumer feel well.