Whither Microsoft? This should be the year of Windows 7, as consumers and businesses embrace the third big upgrade in a decade to the world’s most popular PC operating system. Fat profits are guaranteed. Yet the share price of the second-largest technology company by market capitalisation languishes at the same level at which it has bumped along since 2001. In the big technological battle for hearts, minds and market share, Microsoft is notable mainly by its absence.
微軟向何處去?今年本應該是“Windows 7年”——消費者和企業(yè)迎來了世界上最受歡迎的個人電腦操作系統十年里的第三次大規(guī)模升級。豐厚的利潤得到了保證。但這家全球市值第二技術公司的股價卻萎靡不振,維持在2001年以來一直徘徊低迷的水平上。在正在上演的爭奪情感、理智和市場份額的技術大戰(zhàn)中,微軟因它的缺席而引人注目。