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Microsoft’s battles

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Microsoft is fighting lot of battles – that is one problem of being big.

OS : Windows vs OS X, Linux, Solaris, and now Google Chrome OS
Email : Hotmail/Live vs GMail, YMail
Search : Bing vs Google,Yahoo..
Database : MS Sql Server vs Oracle,MySQL,PostgreSql..
IM : MSN Messenger vs GTalk, Yahoo Messenger,IRC,Pidgin
Programming platform : .NET vs Java..
Languages : C#,VB.NET,ASP.NET vs Java, Ruby,Python,PHP,Perl..
Mobile OS : Windows Mobile vs Android, OS X, Symbian..
Media player : Zune vs iPod, Creative, Sony..
Office Suite : Microsoft Office vs OpenOffice, Google Apps
Browser : Internet Explorer vs Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera
Gaming Platform : XBox vs Nintendo, Sony and now iPhone
Vector graphics for web : Silverlight vs Flash, Flex
My head is spinning. If you notice the ones on the right of VS – for instance Opera – that is their entire life – the reason for their existence. They are focusing all their energies and souls into their products -yet Microsoft is able to match them and give a good fight.
Even though I am a MS baiter, I have to admit – Microsoft is good.
The above list is not complete. What other battles you think Microsoft is fighting?
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PINIP, MINO and VINOSX – Upcoming products from Redmond

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Following the phenomenal success of BING ( aka – Bing is not Google) which is actually Microsoft’s Live search renamed and a 100 Million dollar marketing budget , Microsoft is preparing more product launches along similar lines.

PINIP – Pinip is Not iPod. Bloggers will go crazy with this name – Zune never had the hipness to it. Along with a 1000 Million dollar budget, they can use the money to buy it off the shelves and prove Zune has more market share than iPod.

MINO – Mino is not Oracle. With Oracle now owning MySQL the rich and poor use Oracle’s databases. By renaming MS Sql server with a jazzy name like MINO – Oracle will have to forego hogging the database market and instead concentrate on reviving the companies it killed by buying them – like PeopleSoft, Sun etc.

VINOSX – Of course you guessed it right – V is not OS X and is actually Vista repackaged. Difficult to pronounce but with a 100000 Million dollar marketing budget with lots of youtube ads, banner ads, television ads, super bowl commercials Microsoft can sell this name..and the OS.

Its all in the marketing folks – poor Sergey,Larry, Jobs, Ellison, Torvalds don’t seem to know this and are wasting their energies and R&D Budget.