Microsoft -- poorly managed?

The holiday season hasn't gone exactly as Microsoft had hoped.

The much-anticipated Zune, Microsoft's portable music player entry, has received mixed reviews, and demand has been tepid. Sure, Vista made its debut, finally, last week--but only for business customers. The Windows XP successor, more than five years in the making, didn't make it into consumers' hands for the all-important holiday sales season. Ditto for Office 2007, the flagship of the company's second most-profitable product line.


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Ballmer claims he is "not worried", but if this was any other company, underperformance like this would result in lower stock prices and a change in leadership. Of course, once you have successfully created a monopoly . . . you can get away with more stupidity. . .