If you are making something that is growing and profitable, why throw billions at something else that has kept losing money and market share?That was the last question I had for Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, when he came by The Times Thursday. I wrote earlier about most of our conversation, which was about the company’s plans to offer computing services from its network of data centers to corporate customers. While I wondered about the complexity of Microsoft’s software design, it has the advantage of a strong position in the corporate software market, which it won over the last 10 years.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/why-microsoft-continues-to-chases-internet-search/
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