Yes, even if Android has "squeezed" Windows Phone and eclipsed Windows 10, Microsoft still outperformed Google to tens of billions of dollars.
Twenty years ago, beating Microsoft was the illusionist. Software giants at that time dominated the world perfectly. Taking the lead, but stagnating and conservative, Microsoft has become a villain pulling back the technology world.
Then, ten years ago, with two Chrome and Android spikes, Google started downplaying Microsoft. In early 2011, Android became the most popular smartphone operating system in the world. Windows Phone has not been able to hurt the Android market before it was killed by Microsoft itself. In 2012, Chrome surpassed Internet Explorer to become the number one browser in the world.
More than a year ago, Android also toppled Windows to become the most popular operating system on the world. With the tremendous power of the green robot, Google sometimes even surpassed Apple to occupy the No. 1 position in the race to become the first billion-dollar company in the world. As the role of Windows fades, Microsoft's ideas have officially fallen into the past.
Even so, Microsoft has come up again to shine its own overthrow. Ending the session on May 22 in the US, the market value of Microsoft reached 750.5 billion. The market value of the Alphabet / Google reached only 737.7 billion dollars.
What is even more surprising is that during the recent Build 2018 event, Microsoft has almost no noticeable publicity for its "regular" technology fans. Windows is almost absent as Microsoft executives talk about technology concepts that are almost exclusively meant to IT professionals.
Compared with I / O, where Android P and a rather scary version of the Assistant launch, Microsoft Build is a far less fuzzy event. But Microsoft's market value accelerates before Google shows, Silicon Valley and Wall Street are putting more expectations on Microsoft than Android.
It is not difficult to see why they carry such a concept. Despite its size, Google is essentially an advertising and live data company (via search, Gmail, Maps). After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, both users and political organizations are more concerned with privacy and data security.
Looking at other key businesses, Google is unlikely to continue to grow in the future. YouTube continues to burn money; The same branded services (YouTube Red, YouTube Music) have not yet made a good return. Cloud is still amazed by Amazon and Microsoft itself. Hardware sales are still too small when Pixel market share is even lower than ... Nokia.
Even Android, which is indirectly generating revenue, is hardly able to grow. Global smartphone shipments have been steadily declining over the past few years, affecting heavily Android. The average selling price represents a gradual shift towards higher-end segments where Apple is still dominated by sales and profits.
What about Microsoft? When Windows Phone died, Windows 10 faded and even the Xbox cooled down. Microsoft overtook Google by becoming "another human being." No less savvy with the "universal" technology, every Microsoft event is transformed to attract IT circles with vision for the cloud, for AI, for business. Understanding that its unique strength lies in the ability to build infrastructure for the whole hi-tech world, Microsoft's Satya Nadella constantly invest in the technology "under the ground" to beat the opponent.
The impressive financial reports as well as the "terrible" value of today is evidence that Microsoft is on the right track. If you look closely, you will realize that defeating the cloud and Microsoft services is impossible, especially as the company is leveraging its existing strengths and continually expanding its reach into the coin. of the times. The cloudiness of the world is still long, opening up tremendous potential for the growing Azure cloud.
Google's cloud can not withstand the rise of Microsoft. Google is facing a range of core issues, from privacy to future Android and Pixel hardware. No one has looked at how Google is expanding, and so Google has again come back behind the shadow of Microsoft.
