Microsoft has become kicked across the block within the Internet company for going on fifteen years. Now it really is possibly payback time.
While everybody else hunkers down and fights to survive, Microsoft gets to sit again and choose who to acquire. When it decides, it could dig right into a $20 billion income pile that can almost replenish by itself this year with $15 billion of free of charge income movement. No one else,
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(Google, moreover, is now hamstrung by alert regulators--thanks, in component, to Microsoft's lobbying--and is focused on cutting costs and narrowing its ambitions. These need to maintain it distracted for your next couple of many years.)
Who could Microsoft get? Some obvious names,
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But the first thing Microsoft needs to do if it's to succeed long-term inside the Net company is build a central consumer brand that it may hang everything else off of. (Alternatively, it can focus on the again end, via search and other technologies, but this likely won't be as profitable. The vast majority of Google's immense profit comes from searches on its own site, not third-party sites, and the same will hold true for Microsoft).
The big consumer Internet brands other than Google include:
Yahoo AOL Facebook MSN,
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Microsoft could probably acquire Yahoo, AOL, and Facebook today for $20 billion of money. It could then consolidate them under a single brand and build a strong alternative for advertisers vis a vis Google. (Vastly easier said than done, but possible.)
If Microsoft isn't willing to put all its weight behind a single brand, it will probably fail regardless of what it buys. This has become Microsoft's Achilles heel for the past fifteen years--an unwillingness to commit to one Net brand and strategy--and we're not optimistic that it will be able to get out of its own way this time either.
We still think the smart play here would be for Microsoft to spin its World wide web operations OUT of Microsoft and INTO Yahoo and then build everything about that brand as a separate public company. We think Steve Ballmer is congenitally predisposed against this approach,
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But, in any event, as the Valley goes into the fetal position,
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