What Road Ahead for Microsoft the Company?

The article discusses the Microsoft Corporation, a computer software company, as it prepares to release its next operating system, Windows Vista. Though Microsoft is one of the most successful companies in the world, it faces several challenges in the 2000s, as changing business models and the popul...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 15 - 19
Autor principal: Cusumano, Michael A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2007
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