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Tablet Tipping Point Means The End Of Microsoft (As We Know It) | |
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| Time: 08:49 EST/13:49 GMT | News Source: InformationWeek | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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A few weeks back I wrote a column headlined "Microsoft Looking Like An End-Stage Company," in which I made the audacious suggestion that Microsoft as we know it may not exist in five years. I said Redmond's failure to perceive the grave threat to its core franchises posed by new computing form factors like tablets and smartphones could result in a vastly downsized company struggling for relevance in tech's most important markets. |
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| #1 By 89249 (64.207.240.90) at Wednesday, December 15, 2010 02:23:07 PM |
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Batshit Crazy. The concept that tablets will replace PC's is ridiculous in the short term. Sure many will be sold, but they will continue to be special purpose with a PC still purchased and used regularly.
Really this guy's looking at a polaroid. Anybody following MS's movement in new tech knows that a tablet centric interface is due to arrive this coming year. And in the end, they can quickly make a tablet take both form factors if done correctly. |
| #2 By 428624 (142.32.208.228) at Wednesday, December 15, 2010 02:42:41 PM |
| Chris, you have a spelling error. It is Information Weak. |
| #3 By 8556 (173.27.244.6) at Wednesday, December 15, 2010 03:30:21 PM |
| As we are all aware MS focuses on Enterprise customers. Any highly successful Microsoft tablet will appeal primarily to the business customer. That's how they make the big bucks, big business. |
| #4 By 143 (216.205.223.146) at Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:08:21 AM |
| "There can be only one" concept in this day and age is very outdated. |
| #5 By 15406 (209.87.228.158) at Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:20:02 AM |
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#1: You're pretty confident that MS can actually do something in the Tablet space, considering their decade of fail when it comes to tablets. And this tablet-centric UI you speak of, will it solve the problems of:
- UI not designed for touch AT ALL, with clumsy windows management - bloated Windows OS, which leads to... - requirements for Windows tools like AV software, which leads to... - poor power management Windows strengths on the desktop are weaknesses on a tablet. As usual these days, MS will try to play catch-up to other, better products. |
| #6 By 23603 (192.228.19.2) at Friday, December 17, 2010 08:10:29 AM |
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#5
"considering their decade of fail when it comes to tablets" Hummm Windows Tablec PC was somewhat a success. The speech recognition back then (2005) was really nice and worked well. The problem, is that manufacturer did not really optimized THEIR hardware. Which is complety the opposite right now. A good example is the Exo pc: http://www.exopc.com/en/index.php They build a hardware tablet device optimize for Windows 7... "As usual these days, MS will try to play catch-up to other, better products. " Like everyone else.... everyone is somehow playing catch-up. Everyone is "copying" the others ideas. But MS is having great success in other product : Kinect is just 1 example. |
| #7 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Friday, December 17, 2010 08:37:15 AM |
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Comparing a real "Tablet" PC with the iPad or one of the other similar slates coming out is like comparing apples with oranges.
Tablets have handwriting capabilities, can join a domain, are a full replacement for a laptop. The iPad and other simlar devices are a revisitation, using modern hardware of the Smart Display/Mira concept launched by MS around 2001. Said that there are no doubts that at the beginning Tablets were underpowered and overpriced; the OS itself had some issues too but by now W7 Tablet OS is excellent: the nadwriting capabilities have improved tremendously and even my handwriting is correctly understood. I am specifically mentioning my handwriting because I did not attend schools in the US so my calligraphy is very different compared to the one thought here. Is there room for improvements in the GUI? Absolutely yes although I do not think that porting WP7 to a Tablet would be the righ solution. The latter is too simplicistic and would not fit the complex operations allowed by a full computer machine. Again one of these "Slate" devices would be perfect to be used to quick browse internet sites, control your TV or Media Center, handle a domotized house and, at least for some people, checking emails and reading a book. I said "for some people" because I use Exchange so in order to read emails I need Outlook and I like paper book not electronic ones. Bottom line: "Slates" have their potential markets which is not the same one of "Tablets". The problem is nowadays everybody is re-discovering hot water: it is like the frenziness about the cloud with etremes like the Google OS. What is Google OS: nothing else but a jump in the past and the old paradigm of a dumb terminal connected to a mainframe. Sure the connection is wireless, with great joy of Comcast, AT&T n Co. dreaming of the amount of money people will spend for more and more expensive and metered connections, and the mainframe is somewhere in the World. This post was edited by Fritzly on Friday, December 17, 2010 at 08:51. |
