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Windows Tipping Point
by Andrew McCaskey
This is the Windows tipping point.
First of all, we had the recent discussion on laptops as the emerging platform of choice for consumers as well as business users.
Secondly, the probability that the needs of consumers and businesses will be met with a simpler machine, exemplified by the rise of the Netbook – a LInux based , affordable system that provides adequate performance of many tasks that address net based apps and day to day tasks.
Third – the decision to put Linux in the boot ROM on motherboards from major manufacturers, in an instant on option that allows functionality and the choice of continuing to Firefox or booting Windows (Vista). Guess which one is fastest.
Add in hand held computers, otherwise known as iPhones or Blackberries to skim off the top and bottom of the enterprise and small business marketplace.
Add in the sad and sorry saga of Vista over the past 18 months, and the movement of the high end to Apple hardware and OSX for all but the most demanding applications or those working in a boxed in IT environment.
The sum of all that means very simply that the course correction has been made. It will take years to run to the conclusion, but this was the tipping point that marked the pendelum reverse.
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