Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?
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Important note on their revenues, Azure and O365 are showing up in things like Server OS revenues even when MS is the customer. That's important to note that while their server business appears to be growing, it doesn't mean that the sales of it are. They could have that be a pretty big number someday while being hte only customer of it - in theory.
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@scottalanmiller said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
XBOX is bigger than Windows desktops!
They gave away windows 10, so I'm not surprised
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@Dashrender said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
@scottalanmiller said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
XBOX is bigger than Windows desktops!
They gave away windows 10, so I'm not surprised
They had to!
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@scottalanmiller said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
@Dashrender said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
@scottalanmiller said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
XBOX is bigger than Windows desktops!
They gave away windows 10, so I'm not surprised
They had to!
Why exactly was that? oh, and it's not free now. Vista was more or less a flop, yet people still paid for Windows 7.
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@Dashrender said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
@scottalanmiller said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
@Dashrender said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
@scottalanmiller said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
XBOX is bigger than Windows desktops!
They gave away windows 10, so I'm not surprised
They had to!
Why exactly was that? oh, and it's not free now. Vista was more or less a flop, yet people still paid for Windows 7.
Vista wasn't really a flop, it did quite well in business and to say it was a flop means you are either discounting Windows 7 or ignoring Microsoft's traditional "every other" OS strategy on the desktop. Vista did exactly what it was supposed to do and was, by all accounts I know, very successful. It had one job, get people over the pain of XP and prepare them for Windows 7. And it did that.
Windows 10 is not in a similar position.
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From what I am seeing Windows 10 is to help prepare the end user (whether consumer or enterprise) for something such as Windows-as-a-Service.
Pay mon they or annually to keep using their product.
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@NerdyDad said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
From what I am seeing Windows 10 is to help prepare the end user (whether consumer or enterprise) for something such as Windows-as-a-Service.
Pay mon they or annually to keep using their product.
I hear this a lot and I have to say I have literally zero faith in it. I don't see Windows 10 doing anything that suggests a move like that. If anything, it's the opposite. I see this being the last time anyone will pay for Windows. It's going to be free after this. Making people pay monthly for their OS would be the death knell for Windows. Most people, and I mean 98%, never "pay" for it at all. They buy a computer, they use it. Take that away, people will switch, instantly. It would be a mass migration off of Windows and MS knows that. Linux and Mac would be circling vultures.
It's very different. MS is not that foolish. They know that having Windows out there, for the time being, is important. The free-er it is, the more it won't go away.
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I know what will happen to MS on my gear if they continue down the path they're headed
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Well, this will prolong the lifespan of Windows on the desktop: http://news.softpedia.com/news/nsa-approved-windows-10-cleared-for-classified-use-512841.shtml.
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@Kelly said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:
Well, this will prolong the lifespan of Windows on the desktop: http://news.softpedia.com/news/nsa-approved-windows-10-cleared-for-classified-use-512841.shtml.
If the NSA has cleared it, it'll likely still be there is 2040.
