∞ The Windows era is coming to an end

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The domination of Microsoft Windows may very well be coming to an end. I’m not saying that tomorrow we will wake up and nobody will know what Windows is, but the signs of its decline are all around us. The biggest of those signs is Microsoft’s inability to compete in the mobile market, especially against Apple, Google and HP, with its recent purchase of Palm.

Microsoft is trying to take a desktop operating system to mobile products. Its competitors are creating mobile operating system from the ground up. With the loss of one of its biggest proponents in HP, Microsoft’s mobile strategy took a big hit. It’s not quite clear how they will recover from that.

This has nothing to do with Apple passing Microsoft in market capitalization earlier today. It’s a simple fact that Microsoft is having a difficult time competing in a market that is becoming an important part of out computing experience.

The Windows era is over [Betanews]


  • JLM

    Important rule to remember: if your supposed "next big thing" is a product to run on Windows, it's NOT the next big thing. Google…Facebook…Twitter…iPhone…Android…Wii…

    When's the last time Windows was a prerequisite for something really awesome?

  • http://canadiantechblogger.com Brad

    I am glad that Microsoft is slowing dieing. Microsoft should be realising that customers no longer want to pay high prices for there software/OS's.

    Aople/Google/Linux/HP/IBM are all beating Microsoft. Good to know that Apple passed Microsoft in market share :) .

  • Dot

    I read the article and some of the comments, right until I realized that some of the people posting did not seem to know that World of Warcraft ran on macs or that a device like a smart phone isn't an operating system.

    Anyway, I read a different article about this at the New York Timeshttp://tinyurl.com/2uasrng and another one, I forget where, and in it they suggested that the shift comes as majority of computer use shifts from business to personal computing. I think additionally, like above, that the shift from stationary computers to hand held and mobile devices, where a lumbering OS is a liability, has a lot to do with it.

  • http://twitter.com/the1truestripes @the1truestripes

    "When's the last time Windows was a prerequisite for something really awesome"

    Left for Dead 2? Also Left for Dead. Other games. I can't think of anything other then games though.

  • Jake

    @ Brad

    > Microsoft should be realising that customers
    > no longer want to pay high prices for there software/OS’s.

    ???

    Apple is pretty expensive if you consider it can only run on it’s own hardware.

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