I'm curious if Microsoft can successfully market a product now. I don't mean to suggest that MS's marketing skills are horrible or anything, or maybe they are, I don't know.
My main interest is if you can advertise the name "Microsoft" with any degree of success today, no matter how much money is thrown into a fancy poster and bikini-clad women. I mean, is the name just exhausted in the tech-world where the average lifetime of a successful organization is a matter of years?
I look at Appe who just pops and "i" infront of whatever, and all of a sudden, "iChecks" start showing up. Yet they're pretty juvenile, only getting really popular in the last few years, unlike Microsoft.
Maybe Bill should start a new company, get another name out there?
I met a guy in Tennessee a year back or so who owns two companies, both are in competition with the other, and the public has no idea. He sits back and rakes in the cash, because he has multiple faces.
Dunno how great of a business plan this is, but it seemed to have worked for him.
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