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We're talking about Microsoft, the giant of the computing industry for 15-20 years. Their overall influence is a tiny fraction of what it was. Apple and Google
by TillE 13y ago
We're talking about Microsoft, the giant of the computing industry for 15-20 years. Their overall influence is a tiny fraction of what it was.
Apple and Google are the major players now. Microsoft is an also-ran.
- cmircea 13y agoThey still have a lot of influence in business computing - from PCs to servers. Don't be so quick to dismiss Microsoft.
- Zigurd 13y ago5 years from now most of the currently installed PCs will be gone, and many of them will be replaced by tablets. Will those tablets be running iOS, Android, or Windows?
- freehunter 13y agoAgain, enterprise. Business. Not consumer. It doesn't matter if the tablets are running iOS, Android, or Windows. What does and will matter is, which can run Excel, which can run Word, and which can run Eclipse or Visual Studio? Because, besides IE6 apps that will continue to slowly fade, that's what businesses actually care about.
- Zigurd 13y ago> What does and will matter is, which can run Excel, which can run Word That's an open question. I would ask instead which ecosystem - Google, Bing/Hotmail/SkyDrive/Azure, Apple, Yahoo, etc. the customer uses as their "home" ecosystem.
- cmircea 13y agoMaybe. Until iOS or Android can run the whole of Windows x86 software, Windows will continue to exist and earn shitloads of cash for Microsoft.
- mhurron 13y agoAs someone else stated here 'you don't work in the enterprise, do you?' Where money is being spent, Google and Apple are no where to be seen. They're just fighting over the fickle and low margin consumer market.
- phaemon 13y ago> Where money is being spent, Google and Apple are no where to be seen. They're just fighting over the fickle and low margin consumer market. That theory would be more convincing were it not for the fact that Apple makes more money than Microsoft...
- nostrademons 13y agoFamous last words, if you've ever read The Innovator's Dilemma. Google is definitely moving up-margin into Enterprise with a fair degree of success; I'm not sure about Apple, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are too. In tech the companies who are successful in low-margin market segments are predators and the ones in higher-margin market segments are prey.
- nijk 13y agoThe 30% app store fee 'no margin' market? Google Apps is seen in the enterprise. Not a majority, of course. A lot of aggregate business is small Business these days, where Google apps has a foothold.