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This article is overblown at best. Microsoft's core operating system and office suites remain absolutely dominant even if competitors are rising. While Ninten
by timwiseman 16y ago
This article is overblown at best. Microsoft's core operating system and office suites remain absolutely dominant even if competitors are rising.
While Nintendo Wii certainly moves more units than the xbox, the xbox remains a successful competitive system with interesting innovations that largely focused on a different segment than the Wii did. While Microsoft is way behind in the phone segment, it is a bit premature to declare Windows Phone 7 a failure in the consumer market.
What this is showing is not so much that Microsoft is dying but that because other competitors are rising it is no longer the absolutely dominating force it used to be. This in itself is significant, but a far cry from dying.
- naner 16y agoThis article is overblown at best. Microsoft's core operating system and office suites remain absolutely dominant even if competitors are rising. Yes but are these business licenses or consumer sales? Go to any college campus and see how many Windows laptops you see students using. Microsoft sales are going to businesses (who are entrenched in MS solutions) and people who "have always used Windows" (i.e. older folks who don't want to change). Their brand is tarnished. I don't see them recovering from this easily.
- MortenK 16y agoIts both business and consumer sales. Around 90% of the market share. The large amounts of apple machines in colleges is probably more an indication of students wanting to be fashionably correct, than it is microsofts brand being tarnished in the general population.