Soleron said:
The problem with that is that you could justify MS doing ANYTHING, no matter how little sense it makes, because the background revenue from just being Microsoft will cause quarterly profits anyway. MS could hand out $900m of cheeseburgers on street corners and it'd be OK. The important message from this writedown is that certain people and departments within Microsoft have no idea what they're doing or what the market wants. If these people are promoted within the Windows division, eventually the background revenue will be under threat. There will come a time when a Windows device isn't necessary in every house or office. |
well for that it would need an viable alternative first.... and non of the commercial OS competing with MS are anywhere close to that....
MS could completely crash win 8 and still be fine for a decade if not more.... apple has nothing business viable to offer any IT that goes apple should be fired for wasting capital investment and resources.... only a few fields can justify the higher price in a business set up.... google is a joke when it commes to business application.... and well linux could be a nice option but that's not happening and maintenance is costly usually....
now on office soft....apple work and google docks are just nowhere close to compete with MS office.... you have open office but I really don't consider it on par, yet it's one of the closest contestant.... but still you'd need a major shift because there is huge compatibilty issues with MS office with complex options such as graphs and all.... I know I got 20% off of a grade when I was a student because the teacher couldn't see a graph on excel from an oppenoffice doc....
then you have servers, cloud, and all the services MS has.... all the win CE kernel they put in just about anything from missiles to cars.....
so the day with no MS is nowhere close to happen.... heck even win8 with a major PC decline is on track to take over the last 3 OSX distribution combine marketshare probably before the end of next quarter....
and people can complain all they want, and I agree there are a lot of work to be done on win8.... but to me it is the only viable future proof ready OS.... the only that is suited for almost any device that will come in the future.... hybrids being the sweet spot.... but with the desktop integration it can suite any work PC aswell as any tablet PC and phones or even a console.... so yeah tweaks are needed but so far to me apple is trailing behind in innovation... and well chrome OS is the trendy but shitty stolen version of linux....
so yeah I will stick with MS and many other people as long as there isn't any better and viable alternatives.....
