Microsoft Economical Problem

Posted by mxyzplk On February - 25 - 2009

New York – U.S. software giant Microsoft estimates the economic conditions remain difficult. Microsoft will be difficult to estimate the condition continues until the second semester this year.

Speaking as an analyst, the company’s executive leadership Steve Ballmer, said current conditions can be described as “setting back economic development.”

“Because you can not fight, you should be able to manage the environment (economy) this. You have to think to reset the economy that may require several years to truly re-ready and then we need to think again about the ‘what can we plant,” he said .

Leaders of financial companies that, Chris Liddell, said, Microsoft estimates the conditions remain difficult at least until the second semester (this year).

Ballmer said he does not predict the decline will continue after the 5000 cut worker hours ago or 5.5% of labor.

He said that the property of Microsoft Web browser, Internet Explorer has lost market share because of seized Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft says will work hard to get it back.

“We lost the browser. We think the important browser, the browser becomes the key features of the operating system and we will work hard to reach dimensions that,” he said.

Ballmer rejected the speculation Microsoft will enter the market to move with the phone make the handset itself, although he said the company will continue to build software tools for the move.

He says Microsoft still concerned in cooperation with Yahoo! industry in the internet search engine to try to compete with search engine king Google, which has 63% market share.

He said Microsoft will continue to try to improve in the search engine industry, although it is not reasonable to estimate the increase can be from 4% to 25% overnight.

Microsoft shares down 0.23% to 17.17 dollars on Wall Street, on Tuesday (24 / 2), was closed near the lowest level for ten years.