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Win8 is the result of higher ups at MSFT getting caught in trends instead of being able to tell which strategy works and which doesn't, as they should. Tablets
by JVIDEL 15y ago
Win8 is the result of higher ups at MSFT getting caught in trends instead of being able to tell which strategy works and which doesn't, as they should.
Tablets are a bad business, read tablets not the iPad. The iPad's sales and huge profits are a Black Swan in a lake full of regular White Swan tablets making no money and carving a hole in OEMs quarterly results, so at the end some are actually considering leaving the nascent tablet market. That's because the majority of people still prefers to pay $500 for a very functional and feature-loaded laptop than paying that same amount (or more) for a barely competitive tablet.
That vast majority uses Windows, and now MSFT instead of taking a page from Apple and using WP7 for tablets they are giving the finger to all the Windows users that keep their company going (almost every other division is hemorrhaging money or barely breaking even) by forcing them into the limitations of a tablet UI.
- TazeTSchnitzel 15y agoLimitations are both a curse and a blessing. One of the brilliant things for new users about Windows 8 is they heavily encourage use of the Metro design language, ensuring consistency in application interfaces.
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- JVIDEL 15y agoFor 99% of the people out there UI consistency is a non-issue, they care more about being able to do-X/run-X than having every app look the same.
- kooshball 15y ago>(almost every other division is hemorrhaging money or barely breaking even) This is incorrect. You can see the latest earnings results here. The division results are at the bottom. http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY12/Q2/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn... The only division losing money is the Online Services Division. Windows and Windows Live is not even the largest in terms Revenue or Profit, it is dwarfed by Microsoft Business Division.
- JVIDEL 15y agoPoint taken, but I (and many others) count the Windows, Office(business) and Server division as a whole since it's all connected/dependent of the Windows OS's huge market share. Also mind I'm considering the vast deficit left by the devices division, meaning that despite the success of the X360 it still has to break-even after all the money lost with the first Xbox, the RROD, Zune, Kin, etc...