Microsoft's challenges going forward
crn.com | at | by Mike
Microsoft's top challenges for 2003 include reviving Office, delivering Windows.Net Server and keeping a "lid" on Linux. According to the 2003 annual list compiled by Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland-based research house and newsletter, Microsoft's top challenges next year include boosting sagging sales of Office, delivering the first .Net-enabled server and first Windows server upgrade in three years, and minimizing the spread of Linux on the server and the desktop.
The list this year is similar in some respects , however, to Microsoft's Top 10 Challenges for 2002. For example, the older list cites beating back Linux, convincing customers to upgrade, selling annual licenses and subscriptions and delivering .Net as top challenges. But some of the challenges cited in the 2002 list--converting MSN eyeballs into revenue and making gains in wireless and PDA markets--were omitted in 2003.