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DIA [1.3K]
4 years ago
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Evaluate Microsoft’s product and marketing evolution over the years. What has the company done well, and where did it falter?

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1 answer:
OverLord2011 [107]4 years ago
8 0

Explanation:

Microsoft is a giant technology company with worldwide influence.

Its success and reputation have ensured the company the position of the most valuable company in the world by market capital.

The popularization of the Windows Operating System, worldwide, was the product that consolidated the company as a giant in the business world. Technological companies, should focus on innovation, as each day more advances in technology appear to correct possible system errors, make the user's performance and use better and make production costs cheaper. With regard to the Operating System for computers, Microsoft has always evolved in launching new, more evolved versions, and making the previous ones obsolete for use, but one of the company's failures was to have lost the timing to develop an OS aimed at the use in cell phones, since that the company tried to enter this market, but was unsuccessful, and was defeated by its biggest competitors: Google and Apple.

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