Do you guys think Microsoft has stumbled recently? With the current failing sales of Windows 8 on PC, the slow sale of Windows 8 tablets/phones and now the confirmation that the Xbox 720 will force people to be online all the time to play games. The fact they tried to put a Tablet OS on a PC was a bad idea and they seem to be hell bent on forcing the Metro UI on everyone, making it hard to avoid it in Windows 8 without using third party programs and technical tricks, causing sales of Windows 8 to be very poor and hurt the sales of PCs in general. Now we have the recent confirmation that the 720 will require people to be online to play games, even in single player and it does not allow used games.
In my opinion Microsoft really has stumbled badly recently, Steve Ballmer is doing to Microsoft what Vince Russo did to WCW. While they have stumbled in a bad way, they can recover with the right decisions, mostly fixing the problems with the 720 and scrapping the hated Metro UI for PCs and maybe abandon making tablets and instead focus on making software for them. I used to be a defender of Microsoft but I have to admit, they have made a lot of bad decisions recently.
Do you guys have anythougts?
In my opinion Microsoft really has stumbled badly recently, Steve Ballmer is doing to Microsoft what Vince Russo did to WCW. While they have stumbled in a bad way, they can recover with the right decisions, mostly fixing the problems with the 720 and scrapping the hated Metro UI for PCs and maybe abandon making tablets and instead focus on making software for them. I used to be a defender of Microsoft but I have to admit, they have made a lot of bad decisions recently.
Do you guys have anythougts?