All good points. Microsoft isn't going to collapse any time soon.
________________________________ From: Alan Bourke <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [NF] Interesting article on Microsoft's demise (with help from Apple's rise) "The iPad eats the consumer PC market." Not going to happen. It's a nifty tool until you want to type anything longer than a Facebook update, print anything or play games beyond casual stuff designed for a touch UI. "Employees gradually switch away from using Windows PCs for work." Not going to happen anytime soon. Aside from word processing and email, all the other applications that businesses use Windows PCs for (ERP, payroll, etc, etc) simply are not there on any other platform. Businesses aren't stupid, and they are cost-conscious. If they could have jumped the Windows ship then they would have by now. And the iPad is a joke in corporate terms, since Apple don't care about the iPad in the corporate space. "Office loses relevance." To some extent, sure. "But at some point, big companies and government agencies could make the same decision and cut Office from their huge multiyear license agreements." And what? Have everyone typing hundreds of pages of documents and doing serious Excel work on a tablet of some kind? Dream on. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
