Microsoft's presentations before analysts last week showed mainly one thing: Microsoft Company carries a huge belly with itself. Focus on the essentials would do him well, like IBM has done in the past.

Microsoft's event for financial analysts has shown the diversity of the Company: Redmond told a lot about the search engine features, the search business, and lot of the enterprise software, which stock somewhere in between.

The media reported each exactly what seemed to be interesting, but an overall coordination or a leading framework remained.

Instead hunting Yahoo, trying to create a search engine empire, developing hardware such as Xbox, or Zune, Microsoft should rather seek after Enlightenment, what IBM once has done in the past.

Proposal for Microsoft: IBM model

There were times and they are not so long ago, when IBM was dealing with anything in IT areas. But suddenly, the Enlightenment: IBM has started to concentrate in only two areas: Software and Services. Of course IBM still manufactures hardware. However, everything is all about the solutions, that businesses need to adapt to task efficiently.

A little clear direction would help Microsoft very well. It does not mean that Microsoft cannot make it in all IT fields, but the problem is, Microsoft wants to be the number one in everything and it is not too easy reachable.

Microsoft Dynamics instead Xbox and Live Search

The development of Windows-Based software makes more sense. Microsoft has to find out if the basic conditions for success in these markets (Zune, Xbox and Live search engine) actually exist. Then they can start to develop whatever they want to.

If you listen exactly to Microsoft´s presentations of the last analysts meetings, finally you can recognize a common denominator: when Microsoft´s managers talked about the business and Microsoft-Based software, then seemed to know what they are talking about. They seemed genuine and credible. On the other hand fail the knowledge and the basic structures in search engine and media markets: Microsoft is still a software company and not a media company.

No matter what Microsoft may also try: it is important for Microsoft to find out if the trouble is worth hunting Yahoo and Google in the media. Microsoft has done a powerful job in the software fields in the past and I believe they should keep doing it because it is the future and not the search engine Live.