Microsoft vs. Apple

The rivalry between Microsoft and Apple is going to heat up even more with the release of the iPhone on saturday. If you take a look at Apple's stock it is above the $100 mark and Apple is growing a lot faster than Microsoft. It looks as if Apple will surpass Microsoft if they continue to grow at this pace. Apple already surpassed Dell after Michael Dell and Steve Jobs had there war of words. The Apple TV was also a pretty neat product, but if failed to beat TiVo (keep trying Apple) I almost guarantee that the iPhone will sale like hot cakes, because there has been so much media coverage on the iPhone. On Microsoft's side I think there failing to release innovative products, for example the zune they released the zune in november of 2006 and to date it has sold a little over a million units. The iPod has 74% of the digital music market. If Microsoft released a successful product like the xbox for example they can better compete with apple in the consumer electronics market. Both companies are very innovative in there own way, and I think there is plenty of enough room in the market for innovation.

Microsoft/Yahoo!

I know Iam slow to catch up on this, but this is crazy microsoft to possibly acquire yahoo, then there would only be google and the yahoo home page would be filled with microsoft ads and they would probably make yahoo search powered by windows live. I think microsoft acquiring yahoo would be a very bad thing, yahoo is one of the internet superbrands and microsoft and yahoo would not be a good mix. Just picture microsoft and yahoo together its awful. I think microsoft should stick to what they do best copying other companies software.