Declaration:
I know that few people might
consider this post weird, moreover all these activities of MSFT are
termed under business policies and operational strategies. But still, it
isn’t a answer for my questions…
A provoking question which has to be posted to the software giant
company which has the major share in the market. It seems like for the
past few months and years, Microsoft is gradually loosing its confidence
in itself and going for substitutes. Personifying Microsoft as a
mother who has lost faith in her son and later adopting a step child who
has been brought-up like a king… When I think about the act which
Microsoft did few weeks back, Buying Skype for 8.5 Billion US Dollars,
which eventually wasn’t a meager amount, I’m forced to say these words,
“When you can’t make your child live like a King, you aren’t a mother
nor a women…”.
In my above statement, the step-son is none other than Skype and the
legitimate son is ‘Windows Live Messenger’. “You have your very own
products, then why do you go behind other firms ?”…. Lets now see, the
scenarios, where Microsoft seemed to be sitting in discomfort with a
lack of confidence.
1) Skype out the WLM:-
Windows Live Messenger was an impressive component of the Windows Live
Essentials 2011 and was really giving a great experience to the regular
users, how ever it wasn’t provided a better support. Microsoft was using
and is using Live Messenger at various places in most of the premium
services to its commercial sector. But all of a sudden, the new that
Microsoft has bought Skype for 8.5 Billion US Dollars was kind of
shocking and the reaction to most of the MSFT enthusiasts like me was,
“OMG..wt*.. wat abt WLM ?”. It might have been a great news for users
and business people, but not for its fans… We loved the way you were
standing on your own…
Was that Microsoft wasn’t able to make-up so many users happy on
Windows Live Messenger ? Is it that Microsoft wanted to trash Windows
Live messenger as still a beta-FAIL product into Microsoft Labs (it was
never a product of labs, If I’m not wrong) ? Or was that Microsoft
couldn’t win the VoIP battle with Skype ? How many know that VoIP was
first introduced (legally) by Microsoft… Bing it ! It was the first firm
to publish the idea of VoIP, how ever, it never persuaded it….
2) A competitor made Ally !
This is in reference to purchased Stakes worth $260,000,000 of Facebook
in October 2007. Facebook was trending in the days when Microsoft had
an interest to purchase the company and gulp it into its pockets,
unfortunately, that din’t happen. Why would you buy the shares of
Facebook when you’ve already acquired msn in 1996 ? Obviously MSN
wasn’t your own creation either. The first think which Skype was tasked
after the Microsoft takeover was, ‘Create a video calling feature for
Facebook’… So you literally dumped Windows Live Messenger and other
Video services you were providing… Is it that way ?
LOTS MORE TO SAY ! LAPPY BATTERY BEEPING… Logging off ! Would be getting back soon with more info… Please keep checking…
“MY” Final verdict…
Microsoft is a company which has been a dreamland for millions like me…
Fortunately/Unfortunately, it seems like Microsoft is no magic land,
but just a hi-fi sophisticated showroom selling apples and oranges which
have been purchased / acquired / grabbed from other`s farm, later
branded a fancy name and WoWing the customers that it is a proud product
of our farm, and its can be eaten only if preserved in our own
refrigerators….
TIME TO CHANGE MICROSOFT….. !
