Market research institutions Directions on Microsoft released the year-end research briefing on Wednesday, which lists its top 10 challenges in 2005. For this market research institution specializing in Microsoft, its information is also highly authoritative.
The top 10 challenges faced by Microsoft in 2005:
* Flagship products: such as Windows XP, Office, and Exchange release 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.
This year-end research brief summary, "Every challenge in this top ten challenges may break Microsoft to maintain more than 25 years of growth and earnings, and leave young, small, keen competitors enough survival space."
