Posted on 01/06/2015 8:51:33 PM PST by Swordmaker
The long reigning king of the desktop OS is in trouble. Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, is rapidly steering the company into the back office and service spaces, while their nascent mobile and desktop platforms are crumbling around them. Microsoft is putting on a brave face continuing to heavily advertise the 2-in-1 Surface debacle, but Nadella is only buying time, as he must surely know that Apple and Google is the two-headed beast that Microsoft can not stop. In less than a decade, Microsoft will be associated with IBM or Oracle, not Apple or Google.
Apple’s iOS is poised for massive world-wide growth in 2015 and beyond, while Android is finding its way into embedded systems, cars and medical devices. Android is free, it is customizable and is a platform which is easy to develop upon. C for microcontrollers, Linux and variants of, are being replaced by Android. And while Google pushes Android onto smartphone hardware that has no Apple logo on it, its permanent home may reside within your next generation cars, boats, microwaves, ovens and smart-fridge. The adoption rate of Android may be subtle, and Google is not able profit from the solutions their software empower, but it will be almost everywhere without anyone even knowing it is there. Microsoft has no ability to play where Google's Android is headed.
Apple’s iOS and associated devices continue to lead the way as the mobile platform for the world. With over 1 billion iOS devices sold to-date, and 60-70 million iPhones sold in the December quarter alone, iOS has become the consumer, business and general purpose mobile computing platform on a global scale. Nadella appears to be embracing this truth, laying off all but a small remnant of their Nokia team. Microsoft hangs onto the beloved Xbox console franchise, but this endeavor rarely produces the profits that justify it as a long-term solution worth keeping. With Dish Network announcing a near al-a-carte EPSN cable TV bundle for only $20 a month, a revamped Apple TV and available services cannot be far behind. Apple only need deliver UHD (4k) gaming, video playback/streaming, and an Apple TV App store and Microsoft will likely sell or spin off their Xbox entertainment division.
The last area of consumer dominance Microsoft owns continues to slip for the software giant. Apple claimed 25% of the U.S. desktop OS market during the September quarter. Along with an ever growing iCloud and mobile devices that provide a seamless Apple solution, purchasing a Windows OS computer that does not provide a fully integrated hardware and software ecosystem makes less sense by the day.
Nadella’s Microsoft is showing little resistance to Apple’s device dominance. The company could hope for the middle to low-end market, but Google continues to siphon that space with ad sales effectively enough to leave Microsoft less room for costly OS licensing. Without Bing driving dollars, Microsoft is forced to license their operating systems, and Bing by all accounts in relegated to a distant second place, without shiny earnings to show for it's mammoth efforts since launch. The lowest end Windows powered desktops are also getting nibbled on by Google's cheaper Chromebook options.
Nadella is smart to move Redmond’s software giant back into the corporate services market, where margins still exist and trends move far slower than in the consumer space, because Apple and Google are simply killing them on every other front. Microsoft's mobile and desktop offerings have landed squarely in the middle of Apple and Google, and that's a sandwich Microsoft simply cannot live between much longer.
“Really nice would be capability to display TV in one window and the computer’s output in one or more other windows, simultaneously...”
I also thought that was possible when i bought it. Unfortunately, you have to switch from TV mode to HDMI.
I think they will be coming out with version 2 of my TV/Monitor. So stay tuned.
Just because two researchers claim their latest OS is bulletproof is not proof their latest OS is bulletproof. I've seen many other such claims in the past fall before a few weeks in the wild. . .
That’s not a 4K monitor, DennisW. . . in fact, the resolution on that size would be less than optimal too close. My seven year old 27” iMac had that much and more.
>> I prefer to go with things that can be formally proven: cannot happen is much better than “hasn’t happened yet”.
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> Just because two researchers claim their latest OS is bulletproof is not proof their latest OS is bulletproof.
Except that’s not the claim they’re making — they’re making the claim that they have a fully type-safe OS.
(This is an important step toward a formally-proven secure OS; as there are MANY security holes which can be covered by type-safety.)
> I’ve seen many other such claims in the past fall before a few weeks in the wild. . .
Again; read the paper.
They’re not just “making claims” they’re running proof engines to prove the claims.
OSes aren’t the only things that are being formally proven — a while ago there was a DNS that is provably free of runtime-exceptions, remote execution, and single-packed DoS attacks. (See http://ironsides.martincarlisle.com/ for papers, source-code, etc.)
“you are the Wal-Mart type of user Microsoft thrives on.”
And you are an ass. Apple isn’t going to take over the pc market, home or otherwise. They operate in their own little proprietary sphere, suffocate hardware and software vendors and are just too dam proud of that already outdated device. Microsoft, Intel and IBM are the reason personal computing has reached the level it is, period. Apple didn’t. If Apple had its way we would still be using 386 cpu’s and soldering guns to install extremely over priced hardware made by 2 vendors. I will put my dual os pc up against anything apple sells. Running either os. Windows 7 or Suse.
You know Tesla is a boutique car. Maybe you should get one and then ask Sirri to find you a ride home..
My iphone 5 was shelved for a nokia windows phone after a month. Problem free, same phone for over a year now. I use it to everything on a job site. (these days commercial construction, nothing small or cheap about it.) It also works well with an android tablet. Dropped it from 16 feet onto concrete the other day at work. If an iphone had survived that (we all know it wouldn’t) an apple employee would have come around and hit it with a hammer in my sleep.
Gets five star reviews so looks good. Did Apple make a 32” monitor? I remember a photo of AlGore’s home computer having three of them...making a wall of sorts. Maybe five years ago.
Who writes this stuff? What language is this? It is not English.
A "DUAL OS PC"! WOW! I am ROFLMAO! You think your DUAL OS Windows PC is the cat's pajamas. . . and you're bragging about it! It cannot hold a candle to a Mac in running multiple OSes.
My Mac runs OS X.10 Yosemite and its underlying trademarked UNIX™ Operating System, as well as three different fully functional versions of Windows — XP, 7, and 8.1, and two versions of LINUX as virtual machines under Parallels Desktop.
I have run ALL of those simultaneously in Sandboxes just to demonstrate I could do it. EnduserIndy, That is SEVEN OSes running simultaneously, not booting separately, on ONE computer. Care to try and top that with your two OS PC?
I also have a version of MS-DOS 3.31 handy in case i need it, as well as Amiga-OS, THEOS, and several other OS that I can run in virtual Sandboxes under OS X. I keep these on my computer so that when a client calls I can invoke them along with the client's software and talk them through something if I need to.
Multiple reviews have stated that the best Windows PC is an Apple Mac running Windows. . . either natively or virtualized under OS X.
I see QNX or other real-time OSes continuing their dominance in embedded systems.
This person is just an anti-Microsoft guy. The last thing car manufacturers will want is liability for car crashes due to any non-bulletproof OS failing, and Windows Phone, Apple iOS, and Android just don't make the grade. Heck, Java doesn't, either. When you add the privacy aspects of connectivity with Google/Apple/Microsoft via cell (on the road) or WiFi (at home), it's obvious the author is pulling stuff out of his butt.
For what it is, it's OK. But it's not a 4K monitor. Apple made a 30" HD monitor. The iMac with 5K display has 5120-by-2880 resolution — twice the vertical and horizontal resolution of the one you posted which has only 2560 x 1440 native rez, and four times the pixels at 14,745,600 compared to yours at 3,686,400. There is just no comparison. A 4K Monitor has to have at least 4K horizontal pixels by definition (although 4K TVs cheat and only have 3840). So the one you linked to is a HD standard XVGA monitor, but not what PaulR was looking for.
Now that I went to the site, I’ve confirmed it’s all bogus.
“Two Guys and a Podcast?” Oh, yeah, that’s a solid industry source.
Apple is making a lot of inroads in the auto industry. Microsoft had Ford, but their are losing it. My 2009 Ford Taurus has MS Sync. . . and it drives me crazy. A week before New Years, it lost the ability to handle my contacts. . . tell it to call someone from my contacts list and it will come up with the number for ANY ONE except the person I told it to call. . . It's done it before and usually resolved its confusion within a few days. It hasn't so far this time.
Among the automobile companies already announced as picking up Apple are Honda-Acura, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Chevrolet/Opel, Kia, Infiniti, Jaguar, Volvo, Hyundai, Nissan, BMW, Land Rover, Audi, Toyota and Chrysler. So I think you need to re-think your assertions about the safety of Apple's OS.
These "guys" have been around the industry for years and have been pretty accurate in their assessments and analysis.
I like Apple (and we use iPhones), but really, you need to put this into the context of reality. Apple computers are nice, but are not evidence of “superior” knowledge of capability.
And this website you link to is simply idiotic.
That is, “knowledge or capability.” Sadly, I am typing on my iPhone 6+.
I still prefer real keyboards.
Ford just dropped Microsoft for their in-car screen console for a new QNX-authored screen console, but the car never ran on Microsoft, nor will it run on iOS (or any other car or important system).
You are clueless. NONE “RUN ON” Apple iOS!
Having a menu screen INTERFACE with iOS is completely separate from the car's OS “running” iOS Do you think an iPhone is running the air bags, engine, anti-lock brakes, and air-bags? Please, you are making me laugh!
“So I think you need to re-think your assertions about the safety of Apple's OS. “
ROTFL!!
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