[Am-info] Microsoft vs. Sony

[John Poltorak]

Over the next few years, I can see a huge fight taking place between 
Microsoft and Sony. The main area of conflict is likely to be computer games 
consoles, but the two companies are also competitors in the markets for 
mobile phones and PDAs. I guess the long term goal is the domination of 
home entertainment systems. I fear that Microsoft with its finger in the 
pie of so many technologies all built round Windows is going to win. It has 
the Xbox with connectivity to the Internet via broadband, Pocket PC,  
SmartPhone, TV set top boxes, .NET, a huge stake in many telecomms 
companies and ISPs - it has just bought Europe's biggest ISP. It has more 
spare cash than anyone can imagine as well as US govt approval for 
extending its monopoly into every area it wants to enter.


You wonder what chances Sony has in the long term, but it would be nice to 
see them making a strong fight of it.


-- 
John