Comments on: Microsoft Will Never Have Google’s Market Share http://www.onlinemarketer.com/microsoft-will-never-have-googles-market-share/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:57:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: toddysm http://www.onlinemarketer.com/microsoft-will-never-have-googles-market-share/comment-page-1/#comment-5 toddysm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:03:54 +0000 http://www.onlinemarketer.com/?p=42#comment-5 You are right:) There is still hope. Toddy You are right:) There is still hope.

Toddy

]]> By: jcoronella http://www.onlinemarketer.com/microsoft-will-never-have-googles-market-share/comment-page-1/#comment-4 jcoronella Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.onlinemarketer.com/?p=42#comment-4 Toddy, In general I really like Microsoft, it's a great company with a lot of talented people. I just get really annoyed when they completely ignore such a big percentage of the market on a day to day basis. So much so that it's clear that it's just built into the culture. It needs to change. Toddy,

In general I really like Microsoft, it’s a great company with a lot of talented people. I just get really annoyed when they completely ignore such a big percentage of the market on a day to day basis. So much so that it’s clear that it’s just built into the culture. It needs to change.

]]> By: toddysm http://www.onlinemarketer.com/microsoft-will-never-have-googles-market-share/comment-page-1/#comment-3 toddysm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:45:12 +0000 http://www.onlinemarketer.com/?p=42#comment-3 Hey John, It took me a while to understand your first sentense but you are right - it won't be easy for us (I am MSFTee) to get to 70% if we support only IE (that has only 77% market share). However I have other theory - it is quite easy to change users' perception - the only thing you need to do is to do one thing wrong. And when companies grow they become arrogant and don't think about the customer and what he or she wants - this is the wrong thing I have in mind. I see a pattern here - Google grows like Microsoft in the 90s, Google gains market share in search the same way like Microsoft in OS (we had 90% or more several years ago - didn't we?), Google gets soo big that they think they can do everything (office applicaitons, mobile OS, browsers etc.), Google loses focus on search. I've been loyal customer of Google for 8 years (after using Yahoo for more than 5) but lately I get more and more disappointed (not from the search but from other apps). Time is the only one that will show who wins :) and you are right: if there is no competition there will be no progress. Regarding your note that we think within the box I can only say that this may be true for some teams in but not all. But isn't this the case for other companies (including Google)? Toddy Hey John,

It took me a while to understand your first sentense but you are right - it won’t be easy for us (I am MSFTee) to get to 70% if we support only IE (that has only 77% market share). However I have other theory - it is quite easy to change users’ perception - the only thing you need to do is to do one thing wrong. And when companies grow they become arrogant and don’t think about the customer and what he or she wants - this is the wrong thing I have in mind. I see a pattern here - Google grows like Microsoft in the 90s, Google gains market share in search the same way like Microsoft in OS (we had 90% or more several years ago - didn’t we?), Google gets soo big that they think they can do everything (office applicaitons, mobile OS, browsers etc.), Google loses focus on search. I’ve been loyal customer of Google for 8 years (after using Yahoo for more than 5) but lately I get more and more disappointed (not from the search but from other apps). Time is the only one that will show who wins :) and you are right: if there is no competition there will be no progress.

Regarding your note that we think within the box I can only say that this may be true for some teams in but not all. But isn’t this the case for other companies (including Google)?

Toddy

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