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Weblog:   A $50 Microsoft iPod Killer? Feh!!
Subject:   Typical MS strategy
Date:   2004-05-28 15:46:03
From:   Chirael
Microsoft may or may not compete on price, but they almost certainly will do what they've done countless other times, namely try to leverage their existing monopolies to take over this new market too.


For instance, they'll do what they did to Netscape and create an easy API for MS developers to use, for quickly creating software on this portable device (no doubt using a Wizard in Visual X.Net Studio).


Or they'll tie it into the Windows synchronization mechanism, or they'll build in an MS Office document type viewer so people can play PowerPoint presentations on the device, or they'll tie it into Outlook so people can e-mail song fragments, etc. etc. etc.


My guess is that competing on price will be a second thought, competing by leveraging existing monopolies will be the preferred method since it has worked so well in the past.
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  • Typical MS strategy
    2004-05-31 11:19:04  school1012 [View]

    If microsft makes a better product who cares.
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