On Wednesday, a special study of Microsoft companies announced a list of 10 major challenges in 2005 at the end of the year-end seminar.
2005 10 Challenges: * Flagship Products: If Windows XP, Office, Exchange releases blueprints. * Increase product revenue: Microsoft believes that Great Plains Software, Navision, and Gecad publishing is not enough, not fast enough. * Better safety protection: Although Microsoft has worked hard in this regard, the product code has been tested countless times, but there is still a security issue. * Strengthen PC Home Entertainment Center: To lead the digital life plan, catch up with Apple Computer. * Customers first: meet user needs, the products continue to be new. * Competition with open source software: mainly servers and desktop software, such as Linux OS, Firefox, OpenOffice.org commercial products. * Doing convincing developers: Next generation Windows Longhorn is about to be launched. * Xbox 2: Get more profitable and strive to become the best home game platform. * 64-bit Windows: Encourage PC updates. * Good cooperation: Recently, the European Tribunal's decision Microsoft must follow the anti-rifle sickness. Microsoft should carefully handle the relationship between companies, partners, competitors, especially intellectual property or trade secret disputes.
