Bing’s market share hovers around 10%, but according to most sources, is increasing, though at a slow pace, and mostly at expense of Yahoo!. Even Google is advertising its music service on Bing! It continues to pose a viable threat to Google’s dominance, and by looking at just Bing, it would be hard to argue that elephants can’t dance! Would Bing continue to gain market share or would it get relatively stable somewhere in low double digits? Read the full article »

I had quite a bit of backlash on my first part of the series, despite the fact that I gave a high score to Microsoft’s productivity suite. Wait until you read this part!

Mobile:

After Google declared at Mobilebeat conference that app stores are not the future – citing the power of HTML5 as the new platform for web apps, Microsoft also decided to join the HTML5 standard. Soon after, Microsoft announced a native version of Office 2010, the latest version of Microsoft’s ubiquitous productivity software on Nokia smart phones, a big diversion from its traditional approach of creating a lock in with its own operating system. Is Microsoft conceding defeat in mobile operating systems race? Read the full article »

In this series, I will evaluate health of various businesses within Microsoft. While it’s easy to bash the biggest software company on the planet, I will be as objective as possible and give Microsoft credit when it’s due.

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