We are living in a post Windows world

Market research firm Canalys boss Steve Brazier claims that the days of Windows have past. Brazier thinks that tablets and smartphones formed part of the intelligent devices landscape together with traditional computing devices such as desktops, notebooks and ultrabooks.

Speaking to the Canalys Channels Forum Brazier did admit for a post Windows world there seems to be a lot of the OS about. He said that the OS accounts for 72 percent of the traditional PC market, which comprises desktops, notebooks and netbooks. Other operating systems make up the remaining 28 percent. But in the intelligent devices market where other OSes such as Google Android and Apple iOS dominate with 68 percent, while Windows took 32 percent.

So in other words if you look at something where Windows was never a big player then everything changes. By that logic, my fridge does not run on Windows at all, so therefore we are already living in a post-windows world QED? Brazier acknowledged his vision did not take into account Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 might actually take off.

According to ZDNet, Tim Coulling, analyst for the client PC market at Canalys, said that Microsoft had not dented on the smartphone market since the launch of its Windows Phone operating system in late-2010. Meanwhile the PC market has been on a negative growth spiral. Even Asia-Pacific saw its third-quarter shipment dip 4.2 percent to 34.2 million, from 35.7 million units in the same quarter last year.

However for the last year or so the world has also been gripped in the middle of an economic slump which for some reason economic experts seem to ignore. The mobile boom has also only been good for Apple and Samsung and is still a tiny part of the over all IT spend. Jury is still out for us.

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Been terrible, did you see all of those customers waiting outside bestbuy during Sandy to get windows 8? NOT!

Was in bestbuy yesterday, not one person looking at a PC.

Windows 8 is a giant flop.

Everything is web based and done via browser. MS will have to slimdown and sell an IE book. What will hapen to HP&Dell when MS enters the PC market with own brand in own stores?

IMHO, chromebooks and netbooks have set the price of the pc. Anything over $1,000 will go to mac books.

One could make the argument that we are at the cusp of a post windows world, but to say we are there is, well, stupid.

Look at what people are actually buying. There is a heck of a lot of hardware being sold with a windows OS.

I think it’s a bit like saying we are in a post horse drawn carriage world as Henry Ford breaks ground for his first factory. It is incorrect, but still insightful.

IMHO, chromebooks and netbooks have set the price of the pc. Anything over $1,000 will go to mac books.

Legions of gamers would disagree with you, and Macs haven't made the slightest inroads with gamers. Nvidia expects to sell a record number of it's $1,000 flagship video card, that's right a cool grand for just the GPU, this holiday season. The PC will be around as long as it's the preeminent gaming platform. Consoles just don't have the horsepower to satisfy that community.

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