Google Has Destroyed the Microsoft Business Model

Why would Microsoft waste millions of dollars on its lame Scroogled campaign? Because Google destroyed the Microsoft business model --

Google Has Destroyed Microsoft's Business Model (GOOG, MSFT): "....In the 1990s, Microsoft was able to destroy the once-dominant Netscape Navigator and conquer the browser market by giving Internet Explorer away for free. Since every Windows PC came with a free copy of Internet Explorer, there was no reason to shell out $49 for a Navigator license. Slowly but surely, Google seems to be doing the same to Microsoft. With Gartner analysts expecting Google's Android to subsume the market for Microsoft's Windows by 2017, Microsoft will have to transition to a business model that doesn't depend on selling software." (read more at link above)

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