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Microsoft is a software company.  That’s what they started out to be.  However, for the past 10 years or so they have moved away from that core business.  Microsoft now has MP3 players, a game console, and too many online services to count.  I believe that this loss of focus on their core business has lead to the problems they are now having with Windows Vista and the problems they will continue to have if they do not “rethink” their strategy.

The two main sources of Microsoft’s success are Windows and Office.  They have since lost focus on at least one of these very important products and it has caused a few problems.  It kind of seems like Vista did not get the attention and supervision it deserved so the result was a product that was not really ready to be released.  We can place some of the blame on the media and the general public for complaining every time Microsoft pushed back the release date but that is not the source of the problem.  The problem is too many products and too many things going on at once.  Microsoft has so many products and services that it is hard to keep up with all of them.  What happened to the good ole days of just Windows and Office.  If Microsoft seriously dropped most of the other products and brought their focus on Windows and Office, they would be unstoppable.   

So Microsoft!  Don’t worry about Google, they are going to dominate the search and internet advertising business for some time.  Get back to working on Windows and give us all another great operating system like Windows XP.