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Does the author know how many times Microsoft has been declared dead and buried already?
Last report I saw the debacle was outselling the Apple Macbook Air...
> Apple claimed 25% of the U.S. desktop OS market during the September quarter.
Says who? I haven’t hears any such thing, and it would be huge news...
these liberals are idiots . cause competition and the free market is killing Microsoft . the only way a monopoly can be created is by government . Apple and Google made better products so that's the way to kill a near monopoly.
From my recent experiences, it seems more like Microsoft is committing suicide.
Meanwhile Microsoft has windows on 91% of the worlds computers and apple has it’s OS on about 7%. Linux is 3rd with about one or two percent. Google isn’t even listed. Handheld devices are not the only things that are used to do work and play!
But the upcoming Windows 10 is a different story. With its desktop-centric user interface for desktop and most laptop machines, Windows 10 will be far more accepted by Windows 7 users, and that could spark a major upgrade cycle, making a lot of money for Microsoft even if the upgrade cost if US$49.95 per machine (I expect Microsoft to offer a much cheaper upgrade cost this time around).
I almost busted out laughing.
Apple seems to be self destructing though through their updates. Everything works until you update and their updates are constant, same with Google. They seem more to “down date” than update.
bttt
Who writes this stuff? What language is this? It is not English.
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.
The pressure Microsoft has in the enterprise is pricing/value. In a non-manufacturing company of 2,000 employees using Microsoft products end-to-end, the single largest check (Op-Ex) they write each year and every year is to Microsoft. That makes Microsoft a pretty big target for innovators.
Linux has closed the gap and is taking datacenter market rapidly in the enterprise space. In many industries like tech, healthcare, financial, etc., that are very information systems centric, I’d say Linux is already dominant (from the perspective the I see the overall market. )
Apple OS X is closing the gap on a lot of their enterprise weaknesses and are taking market share in desktops. In the typical tech and knowledge worker enterprise, you sill see at least 20% OS X adoption and sometimes as high as 100% adoption. Average currently around 30% I’d say. Up significantly from 0% as recently as 3 years ago. One way I have developed this perspective is by counting how many lighted Apple’s I see on laptops in business meetings.
Google Apps for Enterprise is also moving quickly into the enterprise space. Perhaps pressing more than moving at this point. Google still has a ways to go to sway the Information Security staff and have a feature gap to close.
The Surface Pro is an attractive tool in the enterprise. The Surface Pro 3 is the most sought after device in the Enterprise at present for those using/loving Windows. The long term drag on this product is the annual Windows and Office license costs.
I’d put HP and Dell in the Dead Pool ahead of Microsoft. Laptop PC’s as we know them today are going to disappear (in this decade would be my guess) and give way to tablets and smartphone like devices that dock at your desk and use cloud resources for compute and store.
That said, market momentum is clearly moving away from Microsoft. As an industry insider, I’ll be surprised if Microsoft can once again be innovative and turn the tide. The comparison to IBM is apt I think..
I’ve worked in Tech selling or hands-on since 1983. The above are just perspectives and opinions from my viewing perch. Our strategic planning horizon is 5 years and a lot of things can change in that time. Your mileage may vary.
If I had a dollar for every time people thought MS was dieing I could buy an NBA team for a seriously over valued price. MS still has the vast majority of the markets in the vast majority of the tech spaces that matter, and serious numbers in most of the rest.
Yep par for the course...
Apple and Google are killing Microsoft, the same way Microsoft killed IBM. In other words, they aren’t.