Microsoft shifts to services
PC World | at | by Mike
The Windows operating system may have defined Microsoft since its inception, but it will be services, not software that give the world's largest software company its claim to fame in the future, according to analysts.
Microsoft, which celebrated its 30-year anniversary with a party at SafeCo Field in Seattle Friday, fundamentally changed the computer industry with an operating system that now runs more than 90 percent of PCs in the market.
But that ubiquity itself poses a problem for Microsoft, said Joe Wilcox, analyst with Jupiter Research, because it means the company is facing the difficult task of trying to outdo itself.