{"id":659435,"date":"2013-05-21T23:15:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=572124"},"modified":"2013-05-21T23:15:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:15:45","slug":"how-cloud-services-could-save-microsoft-from-sinking-pc-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659435","title":{"rendered":"How cloud services could save Microsoft from sinking PC sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/21\/microsoft-cloud-services-analysis\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/microsoft-skydrive.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Cloud Services Analysis\" title=\"Microsoft Cloud Services Analysis\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>We all know that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/windows-8-pc-shipments-analysis-429262\/\">the PC industry is in dire straits at the moment<\/a>, which has naturally led to speculation that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> could also soon find itself in big trouble. But while <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/16\/windows-phone-market-share-analysis\/\">Microsoft&#8217;s struggles to establish itself in the mobile consumer device market are well-documented<\/a>, the company still has an ace up its sleeve in the form of enterprise cloud services. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/techtraderdaily\/2013\/05\/21\/microsoft-ubs-ups-target-to-40-on-five-things-that-could-move-stock-higher\/\"><em>Barron&#8217;s<\/em> points us<\/a> to a new note from UBS analyst Brent Thill, who makes the case that Microsoft cloud offerings such as Office 365 and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/skydrive\">SkyDrive<\/a> have the potential to give the company a more predictable revenue stream and make the company more like IBM, which for years has raked in high earnings despite being out of the consumer electronics spotlight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/21\/microsoft-cloud-services-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/6xUroD_wZjk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that the PC industry is in dire straits at the moment, which has naturally led to speculation that Microsoft could also soon find itself in big trouble. But while Microsoft&#8217;s struggles to establish itself in the mobile consumer device market are well-documented, the company still has an ace up its sleeve in [&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-659435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659435","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=659435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}