Microsoft will begin losing marketshare. A huge portion of Microsoft's business resides in the enterprise, but their personal computer sales have got to start suffering soon. Microsoft has yet to establish any kind of presence in either the tablet or mobile platforms, and guess where the momentum is shifting, at least for casual home computing?
There was already a move for PC users from desktop to laptop computers over the past few years. The only people still buying desktop computers now are old people and gamers, and most of the gamers have moved to console gaming anyway. The shift to portable computing didn't hurt Microsoft because they provided the OS for that platform too. It should have alarmed Microsoft, however, because consumers did show they were able to make a wholesale move to different platforms almost in lockstep.
With the convergence of cloud computing, cheap and powerful tablets and the latest super smartphones - consumers are starting the next move to a platform that Microsoft doesn't even have a toe-hold in.
90 percent of the time that I see someone using a personal computer, they are doing something in the web browser. Facebook, Twitter, Email, Youtube, Netflix, e-books, all of which are platform agnostic . The only thing I still need Windows for is to edit photos and make movies. Some personal users may still require Windows for Office applications, but even that is debatable. This article was prepared in Onenote on my Amazon Kindle, then pasted into Blotter. Admittedly I much prefer to type ina keyboard, but it is doable on even a 7 inch tablet, and it's not that painful.
The thing that should really scare Microsoft is that tablet manufacturers have a ready to go audience from the rapidly expanding smartphone market. IPhone users naturally gravitate to the iPad, which uses the same OS, and Aneroid phone users have a slew of Aneroid tablet choices. New device (tablet) with an operating system consumers are already intimately familiar with.
There are very few Windows Phone users out there and there's not a Windows Phone 7 operating system tablet that I'he ever heard of. Windows Phone 7, according to Paul Thurrott of Windows Weekly, may be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but Microsoft was too late to the game. Nobody's buying it, and I don't see why people should start now with all the awesome iOS and Aneroid devices out there.
Will 2012 be the beginning of the end for Microsoft in home computing? It's possible.
There was already a move for PC users from desktop to laptop computers over the past few years. The only people still buying desktop computers now are old people and gamers, and most of the gamers have moved to console gaming anyway. The shift to portable computing didn't hurt Microsoft because they provided the OS for that platform too. It should have alarmed Microsoft, however, because consumers did show they were able to make a wholesale move to different platforms almost in lockstep.
With the convergence of cloud computing, cheap and powerful tablets and the latest super smartphones - consumers are starting the next move to a platform that Microsoft doesn't even have a toe-hold in.
90 percent of the time that I see someone using a personal computer, they are doing something in the web browser. Facebook, Twitter, Email, Youtube, Netflix, e-books, all of which are platform agnostic . The only thing I still need Windows for is to edit photos and make movies. Some personal users may still require Windows for Office applications, but even that is debatable. This article was prepared in Onenote on my Amazon Kindle, then pasted into Blotter. Admittedly I much prefer to type ina keyboard, but it is doable on even a 7 inch tablet, and it's not that painful.
The thing that should really scare Microsoft is that tablet manufacturers have a ready to go audience from the rapidly expanding smartphone market. IPhone users naturally gravitate to the iPad, which uses the same OS, and Aneroid phone users have a slew of Aneroid tablet choices. New device (tablet) with an operating system consumers are already intimately familiar with.
There are very few Windows Phone users out there and there's not a Windows Phone 7 operating system tablet that I'he ever heard of. Windows Phone 7, according to Paul Thurrott of Windows Weekly, may be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but Microsoft was too late to the game. Nobody's buying it, and I don't see why people should start now with all the awesome iOS and Aneroid devices out there.
Will 2012 be the beginning of the end for Microsoft in home computing? It's possible.
