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Rarely would I agree with Dvorak, but his conclusions here aren't too far wrong. If you live with a Chrome OS device and Windows machines rapidly the Windows m
by fidotron 13y ago
Rarely would I agree with Dvorak, but his conclusions here aren't too far wrong.
If you live with a Chrome OS device and Windows machines rapidly the Windows machines get relegated to "legacy apps only" status (this coming from someone that really doesn't like the overall Google direction). MS need to face the fact they've lost the client war, and focus on their true killer apps of Excel and Exchange. Exchange should be the core of their business, not Windows.
- andrenotgiant 13y agoThey probably look at Blackberry as a lesson of what happens when a company focuses on Enterprise and not Consumer. Consumers come to work and bug their IT departments to use what they are familiar with, forcing the pure enterprise players into obsolescence.
- fidotron 13y agoThat's not quite right, because as long as Exchange plays well with the devices people are using who cares what it's running on? The money is made selling the server anyway. iOS adoption in big companies has been driven, to a large part, by the fact integration with MS servers wasn't so hard. MS have been playing Windows platform lockdown for too long and, with the exception of the Exchange group, forgotten the embrace and extend idea, which currently finds itself at home more in Mountain View.