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re: "Microsoft has changed as a company"
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:14 am to Hawkeye95
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:14 am to Hawkeye95
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Too little, too late.
They may have lost the home PC market, but that was probably happening anyway the way they missed the boat on mobile. There's a ton of inertia in the business market, stopping support on a 15 year old operating system should not be a major news story, but it is because so many companies are using it. And companies that have upgraded want Windows 7, not Windows 8, and if they don't want Windows 8, they don't want Mac or Linux either. I don't know what "one experience across devices" means, but if Windows 9 looks like Windows 7 on the desktop version, I think Microsoft will be just fine.
This post was edited on 7/24/14 at 11:15 am
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:20 am to TigerinATL
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They may have lost the home PC market
LINK ?
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I don't know what "one experience across devices" means
Seems pretty obvious. They want the operating system on your PC, Phone, Tablet, Console, etc... to be as similar as possible so when you use one for the first time it feels just as familiar as all of your other devices.
As for the cloud, Microsoft's Azure Datacenters are probably the best thing Microsoft has done in the last 10 or 12 years.
This post was edited on 7/24/14 at 11:25 am
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:25 am to TigerinATL
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There's a ton of inertia in the business market,
Oh definitely. They aren't dead, but they won't suddenly be IBM, SAP or Oracle when it comes to supporting multiple platforms/interoperability.
They have had a lot of success b.c their products are cheap to start with, and are easier to set up than competing products. When you look at lifetime costs of ownership, they don't match too well for business tasks. But so much of IT is not really looking at long term ownership costs.
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