Comments on: Gatner “Windows is collapsing”

By: Mohamed Ibrahim

Mohamed Ibrahim — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:28:16 +0000

I agree with you. Gartner is a good source, but they tend to make lots of prophecies and obfuscate clear information with things like the magic quadrant, which just gets people angry some times.
I didn’t try windows 7, but I’m hearing less complaints about it compared to vista. Most of the people that installed it fresh had everything working ok, but I read online it gave some troubles during the upgrade.

By: Windows 7 Themes

Windows 7 Themes — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:38:20 +0000

Gartner is a very good source, but I think they are wrong with this. look at windows 7

By: Mohamed Ibrahim

Mohamed Ibrahim — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:45:30 +0000

There’s lots of pressures around Microsoft some from opensource & Linux, others from Google – like you said online apps.

You’re also right that digital advertising is on the rise, and MS is trying to get a piece of the pie. May be that’s one reason they’re trying to acquire or push Yahoo into a deal although both run different environments – yahoo uses a lot of FreeBSD and linux, MS of course use their own platforms.

From my point of view, there is now more than one formidable opponent to MS, which will eventually at least cause Microsoft to change their pricing plans to be more reasonable, or change the way they deal with open source and I think it is already happening. They will make their OS less hardware demanding (as they said they’ll do in Win 7) due to competition in ULCPCs from linux.

So I think MS is not going to go away, but competition is good, and will force them to make Windows better and change their pricing plans & attitude towards others.

By: njdouglas86

njdouglas86 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:08:26 +0000

I agree that Windows and Microsoft are not going to vanish anytime soon. But online apps such as google docs are inevitably going to take revenue away from MS- and along with the rise of Apple, Apple’s OS is going to start being seen more and more.

Do you agree with the blog you replied to that Microsoft’s only hope for long term profitabilty is the growth of online ad revenue through their Digital Advertising Solutions division?

They’ve made some big acquisitions in the past year (ScreenTonic, adECN, aQuantive, FolderShare, etc.) and I’m just curious to hear your thoughts. Digital advertising is blowing up right now- and MS is positioned to start getting a piece of the pie.