Summary: The corporate press helps confirm that Microsoft's technical failure takes its toll and the Office franchise is in jeopardy

THE folks from CBS say that "[a]ccording to a new report, the company [Microsoft] is doing everything from cutting prices to increasing commissions to resellers to stop enterprise customers from using Google Apps."

The original report from Murdoch's press basically helps confirm that Microsoft is hurt in the area that's its biggest cash cows. Microsoft imitates the competition, but as we already saw, its downtime issues (caused perhaps by reliance on Windows) will continue to plague it [1, 2, 3]. Over the long run, Microsoft's cash cow might take a massive hit, which considering Microsoft's losses [1 2, 3] can put the company's survival at peril. ⬆