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| Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 06:57 AM EST |
Point is, once there is a viable alternative, the bottom end will flee. If
Windows gets pushed off the "by default it's on every computer in the
shop" pedestal MS are history. And Android looks like it's on course to do
that.
Suddenly the retail market is gone. Bang goes a chunk of MS' profits. Small
businesses, who buy PCs at retail and don't have maintenance contracts stop
buying Windows and Office. Boom - more profit is gone. Medium companies who use
one or SBS systems suddenly realise that they can replace their Windows PCs with
Android or linux - some of them will have maintenance contracts they no longer
need to renew ...
And every time MS' customer base shrinks, they need to cut costs or increase
prices. As the Star Wars adage has it, "the more they tighten their grip,
the more star-systems slip through their fingers".
And unlike IBM, they don't have a USP that some of their customers (a) want, (b)
can afford, and (c) actually gives those customers a real competitive
advantage.
Cheers,
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