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Originally Posted by DruSam
Maybe. But remember Microsoft wasn't first in browsers either. And they have 80% marketshare. They weren't first to online gaming. Now they have widely successful Xbox Live service that's expanding to PCs and cellphones in a year or two. Microsoft still has a ton of cash to throw around so I think they can gain marketshare of the video industry if perhaps they gobbled up some of the smaller video sites. I bet they will end up a close second.
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Yeah, but browsers don't make money (Mozilla Corporation make $$ because of the Google search box in the browser) And Xbox Live is indeed popular, it loses a significant amount of money on each Xbox. It has been estimated that the Xbox division has lost Microsoft around $4Billion dollars since 2001. Damn. $4B!
They lost $1.26 billion for the fiscal year 2006 alone!
They could have bought the web's hottest property for that and already started to make a profit with it!