And they are still growing, putting up several new buildings near the main campus.
If Microsoft stumbles, it's not going to be good for housing prices here.
If Microsoft stumbles, it's not going to be good for housing prices here.
Microsoft has for a long time been branching out and finding other markets in which they can grow more.
Their OS hasn't been their cash cow for a long time.
The market for Office Productivity software not having a lot of room for growth is a lot more troublesome for them.
However, I they have already invested in a lot of technologies that they can tie together and leverage their way into new markets.
For example they have been looking at the car PC concept for a very long time.
They have Microsoft Streets GPS software.
They have the Sync system used in Ford cars for voice control.
They have Windows mobile for cell phones, and with the bandwidth of cell networks growing, they are well positioned to take advantage of our increasing mobility in computing.
They are well invested in the search engine and online marketplace technologies.
They are well positioned to bring people the tools they might want while using their phones, or in the car, or the home, or the office.
I suspect that going wireless is the next big change in computing technology, but it really isn't going to be a radical change, because companies, especially Microsoft are already positioned and waiting for the technology to mature and make it possible.
You only really see radical change when something takes most people by surprise.
It's still possible that could happen, but even if it does, Microsoft is likely better prepared than most to change course and leverage what they have now into that new market.