Microsoft has huge growth potential in every market on earth due to its broad range of software and services

(written by Lawrence Krubner, however indented passages are often quotes)

This sounds like something Steve Ballmer would say:

Here’s what Enron CEO Kenneth Lay said when he addressed his employees at a time when the company was about to implode: “I think our core businesses are extremely strong. We have a very strong competitive advantage. Of course, we are transferring this very successful business model and approach to a lot of new, very large markets globally.”

Words like that can be a form of overcompensation.

“If all my speech is ‘fantastic,’ ‘superb,’ ‘outstanding,’ ‘excellent’ and all my speech sounds like a big hype — it probably is,” Larcker says.

Personally, I think Microsoft is doomed, at least as long as it has Ballmer as CEO.