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Microsoft gets heavy in 2011
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Microsoft is a difficult year, particularly the emergence of tablets and smartphones. Wall Street analysts are gloomy about the financial growth.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs predicted a “challenging year” for the software giant. Next year Microsoft will try to be lagging behind in terms of tablets and smartphones to run, writes analyst Sarah Friar of the bank in a research report. The threat by the iPad and Android is great.
“No reply Tablet ‘
Friar predicts that the growth of Microsoft decreases from 12 percent to 7 percent. “One tablet reply is still not coming,” she says. Although there are now reports circulating on upcoming Windows tablets.
“And our early assessment of Windows 7 Phone has not changed our forecast that Microsoft’s market share in mobile operating systems stabbing remains below 10 percent.” Microsoft has so far not disclosed sales figures for Windows Phone 7.
Any figures would relate mainly to the United States, as in many other countries, the new smartphone platform yet or limited off. Thus, the Dutch version of Phone only 7 in 2011. In July there was talk of April next year, but Microsoft’s website mentions Netherlands “mid 2011″. There are currently a few units available here in English.
Apple ‘bigger’
Goldman Sachs early October has been the status of Microsoft shares downwards, from ‘buy’ to ‘neutral’. Friar analyst foresaw problems when stretched by the refresh cycle for PCs, and cannibalization of sales tablet notebook “where Windows is not relevant.”
The Windows manufacturer this year his position as the most valuable ICT publicly traded company lost. Apple has conquered that place in May at his competitor. Then in July threatened to overtake the next one turnover in the iPhone-maker Microsoft, but was narrowly averted.
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