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To: dayglored

Microsoft should focus on it’s core business. PC operating systems, and stop venturing into areas where it has no advantage.


3 posted on 02/19/2016 4:53:31 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Ouderkirk
Well that's just the thing. Desktop OS systems are a dying business as everything is moving to mobile platforms - where iOS and Android dominate. If Microsoft cannot get their foot into this space, their long term prospects are not good.

Speaking for myself, I retired my last desktop system a few years ago. But I have nearly 10 mobile devices in the household, mostly consisting of smartphones and tablets. All run iOS.

7 posted on 02/19/2016 5:09:52 AM PST by SamAdams76 (Delegates So Far: Trump (17); Cruz (11); Rubio (10)
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To: Ouderkirk

Microsoft should focus on it’s core business. PC operating systems, and stop venturing into areas where it has no advantage.


Yep.

Who in their right mind would buy a phone from a computer software company?

Or, going back a bit, an MP3 player?


25 posted on 02/20/2016 2:45:17 PM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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