"But dumb terminals are HOT HOT HOT!"
I doubt that it is the end of Windows. Are corporations really going to throw out billions of dollars of infrastructure, not to mention date, to go with Apple?
NEW YORK CITY -— Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, “Windows is irrelevant.”
Off by just about one half billion pc’s.
Missed by thaaaaaaaat much.
A little music for my dear friends at Microsoft!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDN9y2vTdUs
(The End, by the Doors)
>> As a visionary for cloud computing and cloud-based software, his words carry weight.
Of course, he has no dog in the fight; he’d gain or lose nothing if he were right, or not.
The line between visionary and self-serving dreamer is often not a bright one.
The most bizarre, self-promoting CEO in existence.
"But dumb terminals are HOT HOT HOT!"
Windows 8 is a major UI failure. That’s too bad since they’ve really put in a lot of work on the back end.
Marc Benioff: Windows is dead!
God: Marc Benioff is dead!
(I anticipate a "your a idiot" post from Captain Obvious hisself, but the truth remains that the bases of the two technologies mentioned are still there!)
Too bad we can’t see the end of SalesForce. I have to use that piece of crap every day. It’s an application written by and for finance people, not salespeople. Faulty plugins, sluggish performance, cumbersome integration, and a needlessly complicated UI. It’s the Windows of CRMs; everybody uses it, and those who do, hate it.
I think he may have a point. Windows 8 might not be the “end,” but Windows 7 is certainly the beginning of the end.
You can see the end coming on Macs as well. Look at Mountain Lion - they’re starting to blur the line between the iPad world and the OS X world - and the blurring is happening in the direction of the portable devices.
The problem for MSFT is that there’s just not much more than users need out of Windows. I’m running Windows 7 and WinXP in a VM on two different machines, and quite frankly, unless an app needs some feature of Win7, there’s no difference to me. Both OS’s do everything I need. There’s some nice features in Win7 (system checkpointing, some of the hardware installation and licensing has been made smoother), but there’s nothing in Win7 that screams “YOU MUST HAVE THIS NOW.”
There’s even less in WIn8 that screams out to me “BUY ME.”
Once MSFT got beyond the cluster that was Vista, things got pretty calm and orderly.
Cloud computing is great when it works but let the cloud go down or get hacked, then not so much.
Relying on the cloud is epic fail.
Why is everyone so anxious to boldly predict the future? I’ll tell you why: we are living in the age of unaccountability.
Idiot. I love my tablet and smart phone as productivity devices...to a point. But 60-70% of what I do on my workstation I can’t do on them, including most Office document creation, which is maddening on either tablet or phone, image/video editing, spreadsheets, etc.
Just bluster...