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But a large chunk of the really compelling Windows Server applications are about management of Windows desktop.
by jiggy2011 13y ago
But a large chunk of the really compelling Windows Server applications are about management of Windows desktop.
- rednukleus 13y ago> If you are running OS X desktops, why bother with it? If you are one of the small minority of people running OS X in a business environment then of course Microsoft's vertical integration is less useful. But well over 90% of business desktops/laptops are Windows based, so Microsoft has an attractive model for many businesses.
- jiggy2011 13y agoYah, but that's kind of my point. They are spreading themselves thin because their business model is all based around vertical integration.
- rednukleus 13y agoI'm not sure I understand your point. How does making the Xbox hurt Windows Server or Windows Phone?
- jiggy2011 13y agoIt doesn't , if anything it's the opposite.
- rednukleus 13y agoSo in what sense do you think they are spreading themselves too thin?
- jiggy2011 13y agoI don't really, they need the verticals to maintain their current position. They can't really "hunker down" on a few core products in the same way that Apple does.
- rednukleus 13y agoAha, looks like I misinterpreted your original comment. I knew one of us was being dense - turns out it was me.
- arethuza 13y agoThe really compelling applications are at a business level - ERP, CRM, finance, engineering etc. - and might not come from Microsoft. There is a huge world of specialised business applications out there that are ignored on HN (often for good reasons) that any large enterprise will have hundreds of - a lot of these run on Windows.
- jiggy2011 13y agoTrue, but third party vendors can shift platforms a lot more easily than an entire enterprise on Windows 7 desktops.
- vetinari 13y agoYes, there are many business applications, that run o Windows. However, there are two trends now: 1) Move the application to the web. Many of them are getting HTML frontends, and the backends are OS-independent. 2) Those, that are not getting ported, are being thrown into Citrix XenApp (or into other desktop virtualization environment). It is actually very interesting to see using your business app on device like Asus Transformer. And then you start question yourself - why do you need Windows on client and all the heavy infrastructure in the server room it needs?
- arethuza 13y ago"why do you need Windows on client" I was only addressing why people want Window Server - clients are something else entirely. In my experience, in large enterprises almost all "business" applications (except for Office) are served over Citrix or RDP.