A friend of mine has a prediction: Microsoft will continue its decline and Oracle will buy them within 5 years.
He’s probably right.
This is what happens when you let the MBA crowd run a product company.
RE: A friend of mine has a prediction: Microsoft will continue its decline and Oracle will buy them within 5 years.
Hey, what’s going to happen to SQ Server? I’ve been using it for 5 years.
Really? Microsoft makes most of its money on other products; not desktops. Servers and server products: System Center, Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and now cloud services like Azure, Office 365 and Intune are their bread-winners, and they’re not going anywhere but up. Oh, and Xbox is doing great, too.
It is true that Microsoft isn’t competing as well on the consumer side going head-to-head on the smart phone and tablet offerings by Apple and Google, and they should concentrate on their forte.
I love Windows 8.1. I use the client Hyper-V and run several different Linux variants as well as Server 2012.
What also isn’t mentioned in the article is just what the OTHER desktop systems are running... That would mostly be Microsoft Windows, too.
[ A friend of mine has a prediction: Microsoft will continue its decline and Oracle will buy them within 5 years. ]
Virtual Box seems to be getting better and better vs. MS Virtual PC....
I am fine with that...
That is what happened to General Motors.