[dba-Tech] WIndows Share

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Dec 13 22:05:37 CST 2012


Any process that will circum-navigate big banks and lending institutions is
a good thing. There is an expected back-lash to this as you would expect but
I see it as a technology whose time has come and in a few years will be a
development which has the potential to provide a real alternative.

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian
Andersen
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:14 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] WIndows Share


It's an interesting alternative perspective on things. Mobile devices, like
smartphones and tablets don't fully replace the function of a desktop
computer / laptop (and, yes, the Surface tablet is by no means a
replacement, just because it has a $100+ keyboard/touchpad accessory), but I
think what we often fail to take into account is what devices have more
importance and impact on peoples lives. Most people don't need Visual
Studio, after all.

Most of their computing needs are fulfilled by their smartphone and
increasingly by a tablet. To add to that, us westerners don't appreciate
that there may be technologies elsewhere in the world that haven't caught on
over here, so we don't factor it in our worldview. One particular example I
can think of is Africa, where mobile banking (the ability to manage your
money and make direct daily monetary transactions via your cell phone) is
huge (http://www.economist.com/node/21553510), but that doesn't exist so
much here for whatever reason.

Things are very different now than it was a decade ago.

- Hans


On 2012-12-13, at 5:27 PM, "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
wrote:

> Another one to worry the Windows fanbois :-)
> 
>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/13/windows_market_share_just_20percent/
> 
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