Microsoft faces 3 big threats
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Microsoft currently faces three primary threats to its future business: Linux and other open-source software, cloud-based computing and a number of players in the entertainment devices space, according to Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner.
"We view those as the three real threats and opportunities for us as a company, and which we keep our eye on," Turner told eWEEK in a recent interview at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver. "Those are the ones we track and that we are working on today." But Rob Enderle, an analyst with The Enderle Group, disagreed with that assessment, saying the greatest threat to Microsoft is the perception that it cannot compete in many of these areas without cheating.