Posted on 03/10/2011 6:29:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Face it, Bill Gates: Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) brand tells consumers the underlying product is buggy, susceptible to viruses and hackers, and often crashes.
For that incredibly important reason, Steve Balmer et al MUST rebrand Microsoft as Bing now.
Bing has a Slick Brand Conveying Quality and Great User Experience
According to comScore (NASDAQ:SCOR), Bing has done an awesome job taking search market share from Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), Interactive Corp (NASDAQ:IACI) and AOL (NYSE:AOL). The young search engine already has 13.1% — only a few percentage points behind Yahoo’s 16.1%.
The bottom line is users like Bing’s slick user interface and higher quality search results. Results are so good, even search king Google (65.6% market share) is undergoing a major overhaul of their algorithm to banish spammers and low quality sites to search Hades. When the dominant company in any business makes significant changes to react to a much smaller competitor, the insurgent is doing something very right.
Bing Eliminates Baggage Associated with Microsoft Brand Microsoft has painstakingly spent mega-millions trying to salvage their brand after being completely mismanaged. Why fight the current?
Microsoft should immediately reallocate all that money toward a new campaign to rebrand all products excluding Windows (sorry, you simply can’t save something that is still a piece of crap).
If management was super smart, they would start by repackaging Windows 7 mobile operating system as Bing OS. Slick, beautiful, and high quality. Honestly, this is one of the few ways Microsoft can quickly make up for millions of miles of lost ground to Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone, Google’s Android, and even Research in Motion’s (NASDAQ:RIMM) also-ran OS for Blackberry.
I haven’t forgotten about Microsoft’s other hugely successful branding campaign: Xbox. However, I don’t think the Xbox brand has as much potential to cover a wide product base simply because the brand has a much longer history associated with video games. But a Bing OS opens the door for an awesome tie-in with the Xbox brand for generating much more revenue from the white hot mobile gaming space.
Bing Now Alright. There’s my “If I were CEO of Microsoft” rant for the day. If anyone over there wants some more consulting, email me. Need my contact info? Bing it.
Never claimed that Apple ‘invented’ the GUI. They licensed the technology from Xerox PARC. NOT stole - saw, liked, licensed and played fair and squre.
Did you know that? No rip-off at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)
One of their greatest current evils is continuing to support netbios.
Gag me with a brontosaurus.
LOL. I always think of Monty Python when I hear about "bing".
I’ll see your Brontosaurus and raise you a Trilobite
Love that movie!
Ed
Yeah rebrand a first place company to match their third place product, that’s a great idea.
Yes total sarcasm. MS has had a bad reputation for close to 25 years, and yet they still stay on top of the heap. No reason to rebrand while you’re actually making money.
LOL.
I have a reputation in these parts as a Microsoft hater (not in an over-the-top way), but find I hate Google even more! I trust Google less by a long shot, as we all should. Microsoft products seem like a friendly, honest respite compared to Google’s.
I was quite happy that removing the google toolbar ends with them wanting to know why.
I wrote one single word. “Egypt”
What, more people would buy Exchange if it was called BingMail?
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