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Here are my audacious claims: I would say that Microsoft Windows is no longer relevant... and hasn't been for a long time. The one thing that would make them
by akulbe 15y ago
Here are my audacious claims:
I would say that Microsoft Windows is no longer relevant... and hasn't been for a long time.
The one thing that would make them relevant again, if it is true (and not just rumor), is MS Office for iPad.
It would sell like crazy, and it's really only the data that matters anyways.
- sixothree 15y agoNot only are they less relevant than before, but they have really bad design taste and it seeps through their products like poison.
- jonpaul 15y agoRumor is, that it's coming. Maybe they'll announce it on the launch day of the iPad3.
- georgemcbay 15y agoYeah, Windows is completely irrelevant. They might as well take the 4+ billion in revenue it brings in per quarter and light it on fire for warmth.
- astrodust 15y agoWindows Server is keeping the company going. Windows Desktop is a fading star and they know it.
- melling 15y agoWindows has 89% desktop market share. I guess if you can ignore facts like that then you can make all kinds of audacious claims. With any luck, the Post PC era will see a lot more diversity (eg Android netbooks/PCs, docked tablets, etc), but I think it'll be a long time before Windows isn't used on the majority of desktop computers.
- akulbe 15y agoThere's a big difference between ubiquity and relevance. There's no arguing Windows' ubiquity, however, I'd argue that Microsoft is resting on their laurels, as far as Windows is concerned. Mobile is where things are going, and they were late to the game. It's not even making a dent, either.
- k-mcgrady 15y agoHow would you back the claim that Windows has not been relevant for a long time? Windows still has around 85-90% marketshare. And that has been the case for a long time. They have a huge business built around Windows and Office (which is available for Mac and Windows). If you really believe they are irrelevant how will adding one more platform (iPad) to the office suite make them relevant 'again'? Especially considering most people will not do major document creation on a touchscreen device.
- astrodust 15y agoIn the early 1990s people scoffed at the idea that IBM wasn't relevant any more, and yet, despite having a huge lock on PC sales, every year their market share got trimmed back. 5% here, 3% there, it adds up to complete irrelevance. They don't even have a PC division any more.
- ootachi 15y agoNowhere near comparable. IBM succumbed to competition for PCs. There is still no competition for a PC operating system. The PC manufacturers can have a race to the bottom all they like, and Microsoft will still continue to rake in the profits. While consumers are extremely price sensitive when buying PCs, wreaking havoc on the old guard of the industry, they're still buying an awful lot of PCs in the aggregate. Microsoft profits from each one.
- Stratoscope 15y ago> MS Office for iPad Try this? http://desktop.onlive.com/ http://desktop.onlive.com/ (Disclaimer: I have friends who work there...)
- jordhy 15y agoDon't forget that Windows also plays in the server space. A solid server version of Windows 8 could spearhead intense adoption of Windows Phones and tablets in the enterprise (IT departments are crazy about security, maintainability and standardization).
- oakgrove 15y agoYeah just like server 2008 did that for windows phone and windows 7 tablets. Wait...