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Microsoft's ventures are very much dependent on their operating system though, making the entire company like a house of cards. If their operating system monopo
by mikelat 13y ago
Microsoft's ventures are very much dependent on their operating system though, making the entire company like a house of cards. If their operating system monopoly ever goes, the entire company would collapse with it since they're so dependent on it. The only other successful product they have that isn't dependent on windows right now is xbox, and that's a very volatile market.
Google is similar in the fact that a lot of what they do depends on internet ad revenue.
- twoodfin 13y agoI don't think that's right. My guess is that the vast majority of iPads and iPhones used in the workplace are sync'ing mail via Exchange. While that could change, it won't be because Windows is no longer the dominant client OS.
- PhrosTT 13y agoYes but Apple (or any the OS developer) is 10+ years behind MS in the enterprise architecture department; a market they'll probably never enter since they want margins on hardware.... not corporate bulk discount contracts. I don't see how anybody can assail their stranglehold on the cubicle market.
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- jacal 13y agoXbox is not a success. It's consumer-popular. http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-has-lost-nearly-3-billion-in-10-years http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-h... They don't have one operating system like Apple. They blew up on cloud recently. Most consumer-people don't seem to grasp the nature and scale of the 'house of houses.' They have multiple billion dollar products and to try to FUD that it only takes one photon blast down a tube to destabilize anything or the whole thing hints at some naive notions on your part. It's a fully functional death star.
- clavalle 13y agoWhat? First, they have enough cash to weather quite a lot of financial upsets. But to say they are dependent on their OS for revenue is silly. SQL Server income is not dependent on the OS -- anything can talk to it. Their cloud solution is not dependent on their OS. Search. Even Lync and Office can be used with other operating systems.
- heartbreak 13y agoDoes MSSQL run on Wine?
- marcosdumay 13y agoI don't know, and one can't even try. (Really. Read the EULA.) And if you decide to ignore everything and try it, you can't discover if it's faster than native Windows either, nor compare it with Postgres.
- clavalle 13y agoI am hesitant to put any unnecessary software layers between my databases and the hardware so I wouldn't know. But it doesn't matter. Even if everyone stopped buying and using Windows tomorrow /Microsoft/ could still use it. MSSQL is not dependent on a thriving market for Windows. Anyone that needed to administer the machine could just RDP into it.
- mikelat 13y agoMaybe I wasn't clear, my point was that the major breadwinners still depend on their high operating system marketshare. I have no doubt that things like sql server would be the last to go, but if they ever lost their operating system monopoly a lot of products they depend upon would collapse, and they would mostly definitely feel it.