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Microsoft is a powerful and aggressive technology leader with diversified revenues.

Today,

1. they sell Operating systems for home and servers (They entered the business later than Novell and IBM but today they compete mostly against the *nix flavors and Apple),
2. they sell the XBOXes that are the most powerful game consoles, at present, beyond the PS3 (they entered the business later than Sony and Nintendo but caught up to the competition),
3. they are #1 in Office products. The Open Source competition lacks the feature-laden products to compete for customers who desire all the bells and whistles
4. they are #1 in Internet browsers market share
5. they increase their market with IIS/Windows Server against the Open Source solutions and they should become #1 in 2010 (source not provided yet)
6. they are #1 in the mobile market. Their mobile OS is by far superior than the the others, especially in enterprising and third-party applications department.

These successes across diversified markets are demonstration Microsoft is sufficiently sensitive to the needs of the market. They are willing to sustain long-term investments, providing improved solutions large segments of the market are willing to embrace.