Microsoft says bye-bye to Wi-Fi

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You said "It's the MS mindset and subsequent MO (obsession with and methods of dominating any and all markets) and it's bottomless pit of money (that allows it to throw caution to the wind and have a "money is no object/losses no problem" approach) that makes it rather unique."

So where are the MS printers, scanners, digital cameras, hard drives, CD writers, and PDAs? Where's MS brand gasoline, breakfast cereal, motorcycles, and aspirin? For a company with the revenues and profits of MS, it has a far smaller "footprint" than most when it comes to the diversity of products (see IBM, for example). It's software, software, software, and the occasional hardware product that might help them sell more software. I doubt if MS went into the WiFi business to "dominate" the market for a commodity item. It was all about making it easier to sell 2nd and 3rd computers in homes. Their miscalculation was that other vendors did their job for them, probably faster than they had guessed. So they dropped out of the market. No big deal.

Posted by: Rodney Davis   Posted on: 05/11/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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