xbox
That’s my reply to every “Microsoft is dead” article.
Microsoft was late to the game console market, and the product the first delivered was laughed at by many. Today the xbox is the #1 selling console, and they hold 25% of the video game industry—an industry that is LARGER than the movie & TV industry. All of Microsoft’s other product lines could end, and they would still be a major company based on the xbox/video-game sales alone.
They also believe the xbox PLATFORM is the future of the company. That’s why they bought Skype, to extend their xbox platform. They see the xbox as the center of a home entertainment/communications/management/internet system.
Microsoft asked “how can we integrate phones, touch-pads, and other devices with our xbox system (so they will work seamlessly together). Their answer was Windows-8.
Microsoft is late to the touchscreen OS, but isn’t that true of every company but Apple? Does that mean their doomed? Hardly, because they have one great advantage: Microsoft has always been a developer friendly company. Their development tools are easy to use and their product platforms are easy for developers to develop on.
XBox has been pretty good.
I agree 100%
I write software using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and have used Microsoft for over 2 decades
The debugger is a work of art (because they use it themselves)