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We are seeing a rapid migration away from Microsoft's product in the consumer space. Are we? They have the fastest selling consumer electronics product in his
by kenjackson 16y ago
We are seeing a rapid migration away from Microsoft's product in the consumer space.
Are we? They have the fastest selling consumer electronics product in history, the Kinect. Windows 7 is selling faster than any version of Windows to date. Office 2010 is selling better than any version of Office.
Consumers never used MS phones. Consumers never used MS MP3 players. Consumers never bought MS tablets.
What we're really seeing is that as certain market segments move to the consumer space, MS hasn't been adopted. So there's no migration away from MS. Rather MS isn't finding as many new markets in the consumer space. But they haven't really lost ground in the consumer space.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoAdditionally, the predictions about people using a netbook as their only computer seem to have been mostly wrong. This is good for MS, as Windows' licensing fee was too large for a $300 computer. (MS helped this along by refusing to sell cheap Windows for netbooks that were actually capable.)