To the extent the open source model gains increasing market acceptance,
sales of the company's products may decline, the company may have to reduce
the prices it charges for its products, and revenues and operating margins
may consequently decline, it said.
The threat is threefold:
a) Lower
Microsoft Corp. may in the future be forced to lower its software prices as
a result of the growth of open source, the company cautioned in its latest
filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In its latest 10-Q quarterly filing, Microsoft said that the popularization
of the open-source
