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Microsoft is small? In comparison to what?
by cmircea 13y ago
Microsoft is small? In comparison to what?
- rednukleus 13y agoIn comparison to the Apple/Google circlejerk.
- Zigurd 13y agoHow many phones run Microsoft? What else matters?
- unethical_ban 13y agoHow many business workstations run Linux? How many enterprise mailservers run Postfix? How many governments have /actually/ switched to LibreOffice?
- Zigurd 13y agoThe typical computing customer today would have no idea what Postfix or Libre Office are, nor would they know what Azure is. The whole issue of what matters has shifted out from under those things.
- pessimizer 13y agoBecause businesses don't buy computers?
- cmircea 13y agoNor do they care about AWS, Linode and anything related to servers for that matter. Yet those domains earn a lot of cash for everyone involved, billions of dollars. There are a shitload more things that matter 10 times more than Angry Birds devices.
- JulianMorrison 13y agoHow many mainframes run windows? It doesn't matter, because mainframes are not where the computing mainstream is.
- vbuterin 13y agoI would say very many businesses these days use Google Docs, which is compatible with every OS. That's the way we are actually progressing here; everything is multiplatform.
- hexasquid 13y agoLaptops, desktops, tablets and servers?
- nivla 13y ago7 million+ units [1].. Grant not big as Android or Apple but if everyone was to follow your ideology, Firefox OS or Ubuntu OS will never make a dent in the market. This will not only lead to duopoly but eventually end up hurting the consumer choices. [1]http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/16/windows-phone-jumps-to-third-in-global-smartphone-market-share-and-could-be-second-faster-than-you-think/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/16/windows-phone-jumps-to-thi...
- Zigurd 13y agoYou are correct that there is a big danger of a duopoly. The previously Microsoft-dominated world of computing was boring and in places stagnant. Repeating that hegemony would also be boring and stagnant. That's one reason why I think viable ecosystems are valuable. The question is whether someone can stitch together a Tizen/Yahoo/OEM or Jolla/Baidu/OEM, etc. axis and make it work.
- noblethrasher 13y ago>What else matters? 76 Million XBoxes and 40 Million XBox live users. Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/389080/xbox-360-life-to-date-sales-hit-759-million/ http://www.computerandvideogames.com/389080/xbox-360-life-to...