Is windows still the cashcow it used to be?

[famousringo]

Darth Tigris said:

justinian said:
Some analyst believe that to compete Windows will eventually be given to the manufacturers for free. As it stands they are now supplying Lenovo with the software for a ridiculous low price with others to follow. This will obviously eat into their revenue.

Google on the other hand is not standing still with Chromebooks going from nothing in 2012 to 21% of all laptops sold in the US in 2013. I don't believe the essence of the chromebook will allow it to follow the path of the netbook. MS is worried enough about this to start a silly, childish campaign against it.

But for the here and now Windows will do fine.

No, dude.  Just ... no.  Stop spreading factually incorrect statements like that to prove a biased point.  It's a bad look.

Heh, glad somebody addressed that.

ChromeOS's actual success is hard to guess, but going by the growth of Linux in netmarketshare's numbers this past year, I'm guessing between 0.5 and 0.7 percent of desktop users are running it. In aviation terms, ChromeOS' wheels just left the ground. It's hardly soaring.

As for Windows, its monopoly on the OS market is broken, and that was its main defense, but it's still a fortress. It hasn't really competed for twenty years, and now it has to, but that doesn't mean that it can't compete. It does mean that mistakes like Vista and Windows 8 will cost it, though.

And Kowen is quite correct that Microsoft still enjoys a very powerful position in enterprise even as the mobile revolution undermines its consumer position.