↓ Microsoft the agonizing giant

There are companies as old as 7 centuries and yet they’ve managed to survive & reinvent themselves every day. They seek immortality & eternal youth just like human do.

We’re not talking here about redesigning logos ore image auditing, we’re talking about core business, adaptation & diversification. Look Creative, from repair shop to mp3s,  now who knows?, or IBM … no more computers,  or Sony … no more walkmans (…)?.

Microsoft might soon have to rethink their core business activities (which they’re already doing) as this profitable giant has started bleeding through wounds we never thought would be so deep…

Internet Explorer has become the first serious headache for the Redmon company who can’t seem to find a simple analgesic. The problem might be truly its old image (they should revamp it like Bing!)… or that their competitors understand better the browsing business.

The first of a long list … search, mobile os, social networking?………. Which it seems keeps getting bigger thanks to the other giant… Google.

2 days ago big G unveiled their plans to release a web-based OS… Chrome OS, which at first is intended for netbooks but will eventually come to our PCs. Even if many are right about the fact that an Internet-oriented OS can’t support playing games or other off-line applications… time will tell … A serious Windows competitor might arrive as those rumors about Google using an internal OS were somewhat true, and Google is giving off-line capabilities to most of its successful services, er … software.

Here at aqnb we can’t hide our fear for Google. We do not only think they’re a monopole but also a hungry multinational with the appetite to wolf down whoever gets in their way. Maybe they were not ready 6 years ago as Schmidt says but now… they could basically decide to erase any web / software company they want.

One thing is sure: now that the King is agonizing (and less fierce) we’ll soon pray the big G.

Who knows what they shall become… Skynet one day?

See you @ Rennes