Buyer-Supplier Relationship Group 3 Microsoft
Buyer-Supplier Relationship Group 3 Microsoft
Buyer-Supplier Relationship Group 3 Microsoft
Pros Cons
Being a common product, it can With a monopolistic approach,
facilitates standardisation hence can customers will not have much options,
reduce cost in long term. thus limiting their creativity.
Easy to operate and user friendly due Customer or users need to agree
to commonly available OS/software. forcibly for terms and conditions of
monopolistic supplier.
Easy to learn, teach and improve skills
of the people working on the Cost of acquisition and cost of
commonly available software. maintenance may increase.
Easy to write different software for After-sales service cost may also go on
common operating system. higher side.
Reduction in complexities in the It may create limitations for usage in
market with a single operating system different fields.
4. Latest Updates
On 2nd Nov 2001 Dept of Justice reached an agreement with MS to settle the case.
As per proposed settlement MS required to share its application programming
interfaces with 3rd party companies and appoint panel of three people who have full
access to MS’s systems, records and source code for 5 years.
On 1st Nov 2002, Judge Kollar-Kotelly given judgement accepting most of the
proposed settlement.
On 30th June 2004 U.S. appeals court unanimously approved settlement rejecting
objections of nine states and districts of Columbia.
MS obligation under settlement expired on 12th Nov 2007 and agreed to consent to a
two year extension.
Now we have many other operating systems in the market apart from MS-Windows
such as from Apple, Google and Lotus etc.
4. Latest Updates…contd..
As of the latest earnings release for FY2019 / Q1 Microsoft operates under 3 business segments as follows,
Productivity & Business Processes - This segment consists of MS Office including Office 365, Exchange, Sharepoint, Skype for
business etc.
Intelligent Cloud – This segment consists of server products and cloud services including MS SQL Server, Windows server, Visual
Studio, MS Azure, GitHub etc.
More Personal Computing – This segment includes Windows, including windows OEM licensing, MS Surface, PC accessories,
Gaming including Xbox hardware and Xbox software and services, search etc.
5. Take Away Points