I agree with that. Fortunately Microsoft hasn't been aware of what's been happening for at least 10 out of the last 13 years Ballmer's been CEO. In another century he'd have been the captain of a large ocean liner speeding through a field of icebergs.
Icebergs are too benign, more like a British oil tanker amid a wolf pack of U-boats.
This is why M$ are pushing Office365 so heavily. The client I'm working for is at the back-end of migrating around 2500 users worldwide to O365, which effectively locks them into the M$ ecosystem but they're doing it as they were offered something like $9 per user per month, including MS Office (whilst they were on Office 2000).
Hopefully the "free" productivity apps should help Apple push back a bit...
And the Office push might be too late. MS should have been pushing an "Office Everywhere" strategy since day one of iPhone OS. Instead, it pushed a Windows Everywhere strategy which is obviously failing, and subordinated the Office Suite to that goal which is in danger of dragging MS Office down along with Windows. They thought it was a great victory when they were able to avoid Judge Penfield Jackson's antitrust remedy of breaking MS into separate OS and apps companies. I would venture that those two unborn daughter companies with be a lot healthier today than MS if the break up went ahead.
Now how were they able to get the DoJ to ease up on them back then? Why, despite Bill Gates' own personal beliefs, he supported Dubya's candidacy, I bet because of a wink and a nod about how a Bush DoJ would handle the ongoing antitrust case. Heck, MS even set up their own PAC to support Bush. Karma may be a long time coming, but it will come. It has come.
Also a factor are apps, the report says. Cisco, for example, takes advantage of Apple's Developer Program to roll out its own in-house apps for employees.
In order to achieve real success, however, Cisco also needed a way to get adoption of their apps via an in-house enterprise app store called the "App Fridge".
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I agree with that. Fortunately Microsoft hasn't been aware of what's been happening for at least 10 out of the last 13 years Ballmer's been CEO. In another century he'd have been the captain of a large ocean liner speeding through a field of icebergs.
Icebergs are too benign, more like a British oil tanker amid a wolf pack of U-boats.
This is why M$ are pushing Office365 so heavily. The client I'm working for is at the back-end of migrating around 2500 users worldwide to O365, which effectively locks them into the M$ ecosystem but they're doing it as they were offered something like $9 per user per month, including MS Office (whilst they were on Office 2000).
Hopefully the "free" productivity apps should help Apple push back a bit...
And the Office push might be too late. MS should have been pushing an "Office Everywhere" strategy since day one of iPhone OS. Instead, it pushed a Windows Everywhere strategy which is obviously failing, and subordinated the Office Suite to that goal which is in danger of dragging MS Office down along with Windows. They thought it was a great victory when they were able to avoid Judge Penfield Jackson's antitrust remedy of breaking MS into separate OS and apps companies. I would venture that those two unborn daughter companies with be a lot healthier today than MS if the break up went ahead.
Now how were they able to get the DoJ to ease up on them back then? Why, despite Bill Gates' own personal beliefs, he supported Dubya's candidacy, I bet because of a wink and a nod about how a Bush DoJ would handle the ongoing antitrust case. Heck, MS even set up their own PAC to support Bush. Karma may be a long time coming, but it will come. It has come.
I had to read that twice ... Good one ...
What are all those companies going to do with those MS techs no longer needed to image PCs?
You mean all those geniuses with their MCSE certificates they got from ITT Tech?
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Also a factor are apps, the report says. Cisco, for example, takes advantage of Apple's Developer Program to roll out its own in-house apps for employees.
In order to achieve real success, however, Cisco also needed a way to get adoption of their apps via an in-house enterprise app store called the "App Fridge".
Some of the keys to getting an ROI out of their apps are highlighted in a Forbes article "Cisco's Lessons for Mobile App Empowerment" (http://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2013/12/04/ciscos-lessons-for-mobile-app-empowerment/2/) and in a case on how Cisco provided their global field sales organization with mobile access (http://www.apperian.com/cisco-customer-spotlight/).