Steve Ballmer's Nightmare
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- monolith0
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1. iPads and Androids. Surface and this new shit Microsoft is peddling is neither a tablet nor a laptop. It's an akward shaped something in between that doesn't do any single thing great.
2. More and more offices are switching to Chromebooks and Mac Book Airs or iPads or Android tablets because they are far more efficient, they can use them on the go and enterprises are writing apps specifically for Android and iOS. Nobody gives a crap about Windows and this new Metro/WinRT crap.
3. Windows 8 is horrific hybrid that sucks at pretty much everything and looks atrocious. And this is coming from a looooong time Windows user. It's worse than Windows Millenium crap.
4. Um, you don't need a source, everyone and their mothers are developing for Android and iOS now. Nobody does any Windows work or serious software anymore because it's useless and they have much better monetization with Google and Apple. The philosophy of business and other apps that are tailored specifically to tablets is the future and Android and iOS own like 90% of the market.
5. Windows Phone is a dud. Nokia is going to go bankrupt quickly and will be bought by Microsoft. Windows phones are one trick pony. They all look the same and Windows Phone OS is so behind the curve that there is absolutely no chance they will ever develop any marketshare beyond a few percent (and this is if they are super lucky)
6. I don't know who you talk to but not a single person who used Office before I know (and I know a LOT of people, even whole depts in corporations) have switched or are switching to cloud based office (aka Google Docs and similar services). Office is ancient and simply doesn't offer flexibility for the modern age. It just sucks.
7. Pretty much every dept. but Xbox and Xbox Live services.
8. What he means is that Microsoft is losing enterprise markets and their whole business platform is collapsing. This is 100% true. Most Fortune 500 companies are switching fully to iPads, Apple laptops/Chromebooks, Android tablets and cloud based services. Azure is the last hailmary in enterprise market for Microsoft and they are just being destroyed by Google's and Amazon's enterprise cloud based solutions and servers.
9. Again, Xbox is profitable, but unfortunately, Xbox and Xbox Live Marketplace simply cannot carry whole Microsoft.
10. Yep