BBC investigate: How Microsoft plans to beat its rivals
BBC NEWS: "How Microsoft plans to beat its rivals: AnalysisBy Tim Weber Business editor, BBC News website.
First battle: Sort out security
Second battle: Get into the living room
Third battle: Get them young
Fourth battle: Go mobile
Fifth battle: Serious software..Linux...If they get serious, the balance of power could shift quickly.
Sixth battle: Open source
The final push: Convergence
The majority of the worlds population are poor, Linux is free, Microsoft is history!
Philip Werner, Australia
Without Microsoft it still would be a world of IBM and Oracle and that would be a lot more expensive world
Alex, Greece
Your views on Microsoft's future
It is competition - from Apple to Linux - that has forced Microsoft to raise its game and sharpen its vision of the future.
As Bill Gates tells it, we are set for a wonderful life where software is user-centric and your digital world accompanies you wherever you go - in the office, at home and on the road.
Mr Gates calls it "convergence", and says: "We need someone who creates an architecture, need someone who puts that into a framework."
Soon, he implies, soon Microsoft could be everywhere."
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