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| Authored by: PJ on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 12:18 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: Winter on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 03:07 AM EDT |
"In October of this year we're going to have an immense and brutal shift of
the sort we've not seen in 25 years."
The "Personal" in PC is moving to Smartphones. Close to 500 million
have been sold by now. They are powerful enough to be used for all Internet
activity and normal writing, ie, "Office Productivity". If they only
got a link to a screen and keyboard.
Next year, a billion people will have a Smartphone. And MS' share of it will be
in the single digits, maybe only after the decimal point. Future Personal
Computing will be non-MS.
Nokia was their only significant sales and development channel for Windows
Phones, and that can collapse before the summer.
In October, Windows 8 will be released, but people will not come.
So there is no future for the MS monopoly. They will have to do with the cash
and cash-cows (MS Office, Sharepoint) they have now.
For MS, that means collapse.
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