This absolutely true. I don't see professionals getting completely away from the desktop or laptop PC, whether it is a Mac or a Windows OS. But as far as using the iPad or iPhone in addition? That's eating up the market like a bulldog on a pork chop.
I'm seeing this happening more often that you tend to believe. For the sales/marketing professional, absolutely. For the deep IT professional (sysadmin, DBA, etc.), not so much. Developers would have both, but not completely replacing a PC with a mac.
I agree. Too early to tell, but for right now, it isn't looking good for Windows 8.
I think Microsoft waited too long. They waited to see how far the iPod would go, and when it took off, they were way too far behind to catch up. There was no way the Zune was going to compete. And from there, it was all downhill.
It's starting there, especially if there was a recent poll taken that stated that nearly
42% of PC upgraders plan to buy a Mac or iPad instead of upgrade to Windows 8. Not a good sign at all if you are Microsoft.
Again, they started way too far behind. Though, in their defense, they were ahead of apple on this, as they did have Windows CE out on phones long before the iPhone was created. Apple just took the phone, made it simple and elegant. That's how it caught on, instead of a huge brick with a stylus that made work and productivity on it seem a nightmare. My worst phone purchase was a windows phone with CE on it. I would have rather stayed with my Nokia 7210i than have purchased that phone.
Agreed. This is not going to happen. Office is too ingrained in the corporate world to not lose relevance. For that matter, nothing in the Server world is going to lose relevance, and that's where Microsoft should still concentrate things on. Windows Server OS, Office (and its components), SQL server, Exchange.. That's where their money lies; especially as Apple recognizes with discontinuing their MacServe line.
Agreed, especially with Google's announcement today that they are
pulling the Free version of Google Apps for Businesses.
Agreed Not going to happen for a long while. When you get down to it, the bulk of the world's backend software is Microsoft.
Agreed.
I don't know here either. But Microsoft has made some major mistakes in this platform too. MS was making some nice money in a niche market for a very long time, with that market being with Flight Simulator. It made them money for nearly 20 years. Their decision to drop it, sack the studio making for them, turn it into a game, then because of poor design they had poor enough sales to sack the line altogether, when if they had kept the studio in-house or contract them to keep the line going, they would be in good shape there. But again, poor business decision as the code for Flight Simulator was owned by that studio, who took some of it to Lockheed-Martin.
MS had their chances, and blew a lot of it. I don't think Gates is happy about it, but then again, he has his hands too full of the Bill/Melinda Gates Foundation and the philanthropy from that to be able to juggle both. He'll come back at some point like Jobs did to save Apple, but how long it will take and how far MS has to sink before that happens is a good question.
For those with the capital, now may be a time to do the math on some trends for MS' stock, especially when it would be a good time to buy.
BL.
I'm not being biased, I'm just stating that as a Windows user in the past (and for technically still being one), I don't like the way things are going. And I did not like using the Surface, and neither did my dad, who does use a combination of iOS, Android, and Windows.
