{"id":651958,"date":"2013-04-11T16:40:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T20:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=430861"},"modified":"2013-04-11T16:40:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T20:40:41","slug":"microsofts-market-share-said-to-gradually-deteriorate-without-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651958","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s market share said to \u2018gradually deteriorate\u2019 without changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/11\/microsoft-market-share-analysis-430861\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/bgr-surface-red-touch-cover.jpg?w=650&amp;h=450&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Market Share\" title=\"Microsoft Surface\" \/><\/a><\/center>IDC&#8217;s report on <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/windows-8-pc-shipments-analysis-429262\/\">plummeting PC shipments<\/a> has hit <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) hard and now Goldman Sachs analyst Heather Bellini has downgraded the company from Hold to Sell while predicting that its market share will &#8220;gradually deteriorate&#8221; unless it makes bold changes to turn itself around. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-04-11\/microsoft-drops-on-goldman-sachs-sell-recommendation.html\">Per <em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>, Bellini writes that Microsoft &#8220;faces critical secular challenges given the deteriorating PC demand backdrop&#8221; and that its market share will &#8220;gradually deteriorate unless Microsoft successfully repositions itself as a more meaningful participant in the new era of consumer compute&#8221; that includes <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/tablets\">tablets<\/a> and smartphones. Bellini&#8217;s note is very similar to a note released Wednesday by\u00a0BGC analyst\u00a0Colin Gillis, who said that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/microsoft-smartphone-market-share-analysis-428777\/\">Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;minimal participation&#8221; in the mobile market<\/a> represented &#8220;an increasingly urgent problem that may prove difficult to reverse.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/5Lvkno6SmuQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDC&#8217;s report on plummeting PC shipments has hit Microsoft (MSFT) hard and now Goldman Sachs analyst Heather Bellini has downgraded the company from Hold to Sell while predicting that its market share will &#8220;gradually deteriorate&#8221; unless it makes bold changes to turn itself around. Per Bloomberg, Bellini writes that Microsoft &#8220;faces critical secular challenges given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}