Comments on: What if Twitter Went Away? http://www.crmoutsiders.com/2010/02/24/what-if-twitter-went-away/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-if-twitter-went-away Former analyst and journalist discuss CRM from the vendor-side Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.crmoutsiders.com/2010/02/24/what-if-twitter-went-away/comment-page-1/#comment-2684 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:02:53 +0000 http://www.crmoutsiders.com/?p=1162#comment-2684 Yes, indeed! What if Twitter and Facebook went away? But you also have to ask, "What if Microsoft *bought* Facebook?" I don't care how much people "hate" Microsoft - they have 90 percent of the desktop / laptop market share. Windows and Office are powerful brands, and, for all you hear about Google, they'd have a tough time competing with a combined Windows / Office / Facebook / Bing platform. I hope it happens - 90 percent of what Google "ships" is utter garbage and a lot of it is intrusive and invasive to boot. There's a perfect opportunity to bring *people* back to the Internet for Microsoft. Yes, indeed! What if Twitter and Facebook went away? But you also have to ask, “What if Microsoft *bought* Facebook?” I don’t care how much people “hate” Microsoft – they have 90 percent of the desktop / laptop market share. Windows and Office are powerful brands, and, for all you hear about Google, they’d have a tough time competing with a combined Windows / Office / Facebook / Bing platform.

I hope it happens – 90 percent of what Google “ships” is utter garbage and a lot of it is intrusive and invasive to boot. There’s a perfect opportunity to bring *people* back to the Internet for Microsoft.

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