i love the smell of desperation in the morning ....
MS can't admit no one wants Windows tablets. it's going to keep flailing and failing with new models as long as Ballmer/Bill call the shots. expect tight integration with the XBox 3 - that's its last faint hope (how's that working out for you, Nintendo?).
because without tablets/phones, MS will have to face the truth its future is to be principally an enterprise services company, like IBM. and that Windows never will be "everywhere" - B&B's meglomaniac dream of 199x. but the worm has turned ...
i love the smell of desperation in the morning ....
MS can't admit no one wants Windows tablets. it's going to keep flailing and failing with new models as long as Ballmer/Bill call the shots. expect tight integration with the XBox 3 - that's its last faint hope (how's that working out for you, Nintendo?).
because without tablets/phones, MS will have to face the truth its future is to be principally an enterprise services company, like IBM. and that Windows never will be "everywhere" - B&B's meglomaniac dream of 199x. but the worm has turned ...
Which is of course not true.
Win8 tablets are out, what - 6 months for RT, 3 months for Pro. Consider this:
Android tablets are out for 2 years, I think... and only recently have they started catching up with iPads. They had to compete "only" against iPad and it took them 2 years to get anywhere.
Win8 tablets are competing iPads AND Android tablets. Not to mention that iPad, as a platform, is much stronger now than it was when Android tablets started hitting market.
The only thing that might work for MS here, and give them some decent market share in 2 years or so time, is business market. Win tablets (Pro, not RT) are so much more at home in there. That is the most logical penetration point for Win8 tablets, and one that MS is not really focusing on, unfortunately for them. Lenovo and HP have tablets with docking stations capable of connecting to LAN, big screen or two, and usual USB devices... but Surface Pro, which should be pinnacle of business-grade tablets, cannot.
But... I have a feel this will change with next refresh. MS would like to be cool consumer brand, but at the end you play cards you have in your hands, and those cards has "corporate" written all over then. Consumer explosion would be great for them, but their products are known to enter homes through business exposure, and regardless of their wishes, I think they will have to stick to that formula for their tablets as well.
Ballmer: "We will just keep making more versions of what we are not able to sell, until we find one that does."
Well innovation is off the table for Microsoft for the foreseeable future (unless they drastically change their corporate culture), so success by brute force retries and chasing their competitors is pretty much the only playbook open to them.
Well innovation is off the table for Microsoft for the foreseeable future (unless they drastically change their corporate culture), so success by brute force retries and chasing their competitors is pretty much the only playbook open to them.
And therein lies the precise reason for Microsofts continuing downfall ... 'brute force' no longer works for them.
"Microsoft reportedly planning to discontinue their 7" tablet which failed to all life to the Surface lineup"
Once discontinued they will probably convert them into giant Win 8 phones to capture the new emerging segment Samsung is after, that lucrative market of people with really large pockets, hands, ears and poor eye sight.
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Ballmer is a clown without a clue. Fact!
i love the smell of desperation in the morning ....
MS can't admit no one wants Windows tablets. it's going to keep flailing and failing with new models as long as Ballmer/Bill call the shots. expect tight integration with the XBox 3 - that's its last faint hope (how's that working out for you, Nintendo?).
because without tablets/phones, MS will have to face the truth its future is to be principally an enterprise services company, like IBM. and that Windows never will be "everywhere" - B&B's meglomaniac dream of 199x. but the worm has turned ...
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
I can't wait for Samsung to rebrand their laptop line as "Galaxy" products thanks to the inclusion of a telephony chip.
Cue the commercials where you see people holding their 17" laptops to their heads.
"Now with a new hinge that lays flat to facilitate closer holding!" Of course, that shows up on the SECOND generation model…
I found their new spokesman...
There you go, insulting clowns!
"Microsoft reportedly planning to discontinue their 7" tablet which failed to all life to the Surface lineup"
Which is of course not true.
Win8 tablets are out, what - 6 months for RT, 3 months for Pro. Consider this:
Android tablets are out for 2 years, I think... and only recently have they started catching up with iPads. They had to compete "only" against iPad and it took them 2 years to get anywhere.
Win8 tablets are competing iPads AND Android tablets. Not to mention that iPad, as a platform, is much stronger now than it was when Android tablets started hitting market.
The only thing that might work for MS here, and give them some decent market share in 2 years or so time, is business market. Win tablets (Pro, not RT) are so much more at home in there. That is the most logical penetration point for Win8 tablets, and one that MS is not really focusing on, unfortunately for them. Lenovo and HP have tablets with docking stations capable of connecting to LAN, big screen or two, and usual USB devices... but Surface Pro, which should be pinnacle of business-grade tablets, cannot.
But... I have a feel this will change with next refresh. MS would like to be cool consumer brand, but at the end you play cards you have in your hands, and those cards has "corporate" written all over then. Consumer explosion would be great for them, but their products are known to enter homes through business exposure, and regardless of their wishes, I think they will have to stick to that formula for their tablets as well.
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Originally Posted by djmikeo
Ballmer: "We will just keep making more versions of what we are not able to sell, until we find one that does."
Well innovation is off the table for Microsoft for the foreseeable future (unless they drastically change their corporate culture), so success by brute force retries and chasing their competitors is pretty much the only playbook open to them.
And therein lies the precise reason for Microsofts continuing downfall ... 'brute force' no longer works for them.
Once discontinued they will probably convert them into giant Win 8 phones to capture the new emerging segment Samsung is after, that lucrative market of people with really large pockets, hands, ears and poor eye sight.