#1 on a third tier os.. yea, that's worth bragging about....
Sorry, you lose. You can't pick and choose the yardstick...
You want to talk marketshare... you lose... MSNBC a joke... You want to talk profitability.. 3 years to finally make a profit? You can't pick and choose which yardstick.
Reality is MS is full of less than stunning successess. and when they fail the MS PR machine just change the yardstick to make it sound better than it was.
MS PORTAL... gone... MSNBC... last in ratings, Rosanne Barr Nude would attract more people than MSNBC on a typical weeknight.... XBOX.. nowhere near a serious threat to the industry, and PS3's will be shipping long before XBOX figures out its a novelty.
MS is not a company that has turned everything its touched to gold... particularly in the INTERNET ARENA...
they launched their original search and claimed it would make them a player.. it didn't... they launched a new search claimed THIS TIME it will make them aplayer... it didn't... launched another one... same thing.. and now they are doing it again.. and they will get the same results...
You can spin spin spin all you like... but MS is no threat in the search arena. There is nothing about there new search that offers one single improvement over whats already and been out there for years.
Altavista leap frogged Lycos because they had a better search... AltaVista fell back to nothing because they didn't keep it going.... Goto lept up because they offered something new... and eventually fell as Google offered a better product... MS Search, like AOL Search has NEVER offered a better product.. at best they are attempts at keeping up.. and keeping up won't win you the gold.
Search is an arena where even today someone COULD leap frog GOOGLE if they COULD come out with a better search... unfortunatley MSN once again didn't do that..... Sorry... they aren't a threat or a player in search... and are no closer now than they were in the late 90s.
Keep up the PR though... make sure you get the latest talking points from your boss... wouldn't want folks to see through the marketing PR.