{"id":673320,"date":"2010-02-23T16:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=13659"},"modified":"2010-02-23T16:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:38:17","slug":"microsoft-may-still-buy-rim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/673320","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft may still buy RIM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13659\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?resize=51%2C61\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rimwp7.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"rimwp7\" border=\"0\" alt=\"rimwp7\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rimwp7_thumb.png?resize=155%2C244\" width=\"155\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> Even the well-received announcement of Windows Phone 7 has not caused rumours of a RIM buy-out by Microsoft to die.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s something I know they&#8217;ve talked about &#8212; buying Research in Motion or even Nokia,&quot; Toan Tran, an analyst at Morningstar, said of Microsoft. &quot;To really compete in this business, Microsoft needs to get into the hardware business, where they are able to control the entire user experience.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Apple has shown that&#8217;s the model that works,&quot; Tran added. &quot;In a consumer device, people just want something that works, they don&#8217;t want something as complicated as a PC.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has about $35 billion in cash and short term investments and a market cap of around $248 billion, making RIM\u2019s $39 billion market cap pricy but affordable.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has always resisted competing with their OEM\u2019s, but as traditional Windows Mobile OEM\u2019s stray to other OS\u2019s this may become less of an issue.<\/p>\n<p>The new consumer focus of <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=windows-phone-7-series\" >Windows Phone 7 series<\/a> may also be a sign of Microsoft abandoning the Windows Mobile business market, leaving the company in need of another route into the enterprise market.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has however pooh-poohed the idea:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The word &#8216;ever&#8217; is a big word, but I certainly don&#8217;t feel like that&#8217;s the right strategy for us today,&quot; Ballmer told Reuters at Mobile World Congress recently.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Buying somebody would be a shortcut,&quot; said Kim Caughey, an analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group. &quot;But if they can give business users more functionality (with the new phones), they have a shot.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Keegan analyst Tavis McCourt said he did not believe Microsoft has yet given up on its software licensing strategy:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Microsoft doesn&#8217;t want to be in the hardware space. It would alienate its other hardware customers,&quot; said McCourt.<\/p>\n<p>Do our readers believe the rumours of a RIM purchase is credible? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE61I54A20100219\" >Reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the well-received announcement of Windows Phone 7 has not caused rumours of a RIM buy-out by Microsoft to die. &quot;It&#8217;s something I know they&#8217;ve talked about &#8212; buying Research in Motion or even Nokia,&quot; Toan Tran, an analyst at Morningstar, said of Microsoft. &quot;To really compete in this business, Microsoft needs to get into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821,12071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Pa0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}