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Workstations from a Post-PC Company
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Yes, but where do you realistically go?
Mainstream computing is shearing completely away from our work model.
the iPad and the iPhone aren’t a phone and a tablet; they’re two iterations of a mobile touch based computing platform. the entire PC industry is running screaming after it. And for my money, I think that microsoft is incredibly confused at this point. I don’t see how windows becomes our new port of call.
The idea that desktop windows explodes into metro at the start menu is a shockingly weird decision. I think that microsoft is near headless strategically at this point. Given their terrifying current experience in phones, the one thing microsoft vestigially understand is that, in order to save themselves, they have to somehow shove the magic of windows proper into the exploding market Apple have created.
But: how exactly does a $125 MS office work on appstore pricing? And how does windows work as an embedded free OS?
The idea that tablet windows is going to present me with the metro environment, and then say expose the win7 explorer ribbon of a million tiny icons and drop down menus in the same touch driven environment is, to put it simply, insane.
Microsoft has two financial pillars: the Windows OS and the Office suite.I think we’re watching Microsoft being eaten alive – slowly – but eaten alive.
reality is melting messily in all directions across “personal computing”, and we are largely hosed.
the fear would be that, as a combined hardware software OS requirement, the environment of stuff like editing and post may in time, due to the vanishing protection of consumer market multipliers, become less like the example of a truck to a car even, and more like the comparison of a combine harvester to a car: it has wheels, but its guts are way, way off the bell curve; they become very isolated and specific, and accordingly expensive.
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I am still trying to figure out why he pronounced jaguar as jagwire
rc
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Maybe it will be like the old nle days where you edited in low res and then rendered the final project. Maybe we will offline on the ipad and send the command to the workstation and all will be rendered in the right resolution then we can see it on the ipad
rc
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“think we’re watching Microsoft being eaten alive – slowly – but eaten alive. ”
Not exactly, Microsoft’s real strength is on the backend. Sure, they can deploy 20,000 desktops in your company, but that’s just the tip of the spear… MOM, Sharpoint, Lync, Azure and a whole host of technologies, platforms and services you probably never heard of are what pays the bills. MS, probably does’nt care much if you bring your iDevice into the office… I think they’re much more concerned with all the data, security and services needed to support those devices. Either way, Microsoft wins.
Shawn
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unless, I should add, Apple, the worlds most powerful corporation, born directly from the creative industries, would choose to balance an umbrella over said creative industry’s head now.
By simply making a forthright public declaration of intent – any smarties; warm milk, charitable tower hardware support, a forked FC Pro to resuscitate the bread paying tens of thousands left dead by FCPX, and finally – some fresh gingerbread biscuits. literally anything. The monolith unanswerable to a state broadcaster or a sole trader is becoming unbearable given their massive shift.
It’s becoming cruel.
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[Shawn Miller] “Microsoft’s real strength is on the backend. Sure, they can deploy 20,000 desktops in your company, but that’s just the tip of the spear… MOM, Sharpoint, Lync, Azure and a whole host of technologies, platforms and services you probably never heard of are what pays the bills. MS, probably does’nt care much if you bring your iDevice into the office… I think they’re much more concerned with all the data, security and services needed to support those devices. Either way, Microsoft wins.”
You sure about that? Microsoft makes 74% of their profits from Office (Business Dvision) and Windows and only 20% from Servers.
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“You sure about that? Microsoft makes 74% of their profits from Office (Business Dvision) and Windows and only 20% from Servers.”
Yes, I think you may be bolstering my point a bit. Sure, bring your iPhone to work… but connect to Outlook/Exchange to get your mail and do all your team collaboration on SharePoint. Office isn’t just a suite of products, it’s a platform for applications and services which (surprise) integrates with the Windows platform… but isn’t dependent on it. It will be interesting to see in the coming years how much of Microsoft’s profits shift between its Server &Tool, Business and Online Services Businesses… which are all up from last year BTW. In short, I don’t believe Microsoft or Windows is in any real trouble… not from Apple anyway. Google on the other hand…
Shawn
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “The monolith unanswerable to a state broadcaster or a sole trader is becoming unbearable given their massive shift.
It’s becoming cruel.
“O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O post-PC world. That has such people in’t!
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No he means that without the current revenues streams in the low three figures from the word processing, spreadsheet end, and the low three figures revenue from the OS end, Microsoft is going to be gutted. That’s my point.
As advertising is to google so Windows licensing/office retail is to MS.
Office is their largest remaining profit driver, and god, just the iPhone revenue alone is larger than all microsofts revenue per quarter. You could argue that all MS are now is a creaky historical business OS, an over complex word processor and a spreadsheet.
…Bar anything else, I had to stick the knife in. Mac OS System 7 FTW.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Office is their largest remaining profit driver, and god, just the iPhone revenue alone is larger than all microsofts revenue per quarter. You could argue that all MS are now is a creaky historical business OS, an over complex word processor and a spreadsheet.
…Bar anything else, I had to stick the knife in. Mac OS System 7 FTW.”
Office for iOS coming soon supposedly, what does that tell you.
Steve Connor
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