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Three Reasons Why Microsoft May Be Unstoppable

Vitaliy Katsenelson Jun 04, 2009 2:45 pm

Three Reasons Why Microsoft May Be Unstoppable


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Call it the wishful thinking of the guy who owns Microsoft (MSFT) stock, but the news flow from the company this week was excellent:

1. Microsoft did something very uncharacteristic of itself: It didn't push back the release of Windows 7, which is still slated for release on October 22.

2. Bing is excellent. I played with it for a couple of days, and it's an un-Microsoft-like search engine. Type, for instance "flight from NYC to Denver," and it will tell you that fares are predicted to rise in the next 30 days. Click on the green arrow and it will tell you what the prices were over the last 30 days.

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3. Microsoft demonstrated project Natal this week at E3. If the technology demonstrated is real -- and it looks like it is because Microsoft has released SDK (Software Developer’s Kit) -- software programmers can now start developing games and applications for Natal. Natal puts Wii’s wireless controller to shame. In fact, I think it will change the gaming industry forever, and I’d be very worried if I owned Nintendo (NTDOY) stock.

According to PC World, here's what Natal does:

“A motion sensing device that allows you to control video games and Xbox 360 menus with your body instead of a peripheral controller. Natal gives you voice and full-body motion control over your on-screen avatar using an RGB camera, depth sensor, multi-array microphone, and custom processor running proprietary software.”

Finally, in my article, I said “It's believed by many that creativity retired with Bill Gates." In response to that I received a lot of emails saying that Microsoft never had any creativity, as it never had an original product; it just takes products created by others and improves and markets the hell out of them. It's very true; even the original DOS -- the one that Microsoft sold to IBM (IBM) -- was originally created by someone else.

But copying requires creativity too; otherwise no one would buy your product over your competition's. Consider WordPerfect. A dominating product at one time, Microsoft's superior replica outdid it with one simple word: Word.

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