[dba-Tech] PCs are here to stay

Good article.

The one point that has been made is that it is not Linux that is fighting to
get a spot on the desktop (fact is they do NO advertising or promote) but
that Microsoft by its current products and attitude has caused this huge
vacuum on the PC desktop.

We each live in a tiny micro-cosmos of the computer world and you are making
your assessment from your immediate clients and I am doing the same.

So the truth is we will have to wait and see and re-visit this topic in
another year and then it will be obvious whose crystal ball was clearest.

Jim

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Shamil
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 5:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] PCs are here to stay

 HI Jim --

OK, let's wait till the end of this year to see what will be the PC market
OSes' usage figures.

Another article from the same ZDNet magazine you referred (July 1, 2012)
stated a while ago:

http://www.zdnet.com/linux-in-the-enterprise-linux-on-the-desktop-7000000054
/

" The reality is that Microsoft has a lock on the desktop. Last year, in the
time that it took Apple to move 6 million copies of  Lion , Microsoft was
able to move  400 million copies of Windows 7  and was projected by Gartner
to be on  42% of all PCs by the end of 2011 ! By some estimates, Microsoft
7, Vista and XP have about 87% of the market."

And here is  information on Win8 licences sold so far (I have posted it here
already):

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/08/microsoft-announces-60m-licenses-for-window
s-8-sold-showing-similar-sales-trajectory-to-windows-7/


Thank you.

-- Shamil

Понедельник, 14 января 2013, 13:16 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence"
<accessd at shaw.ca>:
>Good point.
>
>Considering the Linux has been the private preserve of real tech heads, for
>years, it now so completely dominates the Server market and almost 100
>percent of the super-computer market. All the growth has happened without
>the help of an advertisers and marketers of any kind.
>
>Microsoft has had the benefit of a huge marketing team. Their costs of
>advertising is millions a day and having hardware manufactures signed to
>contracts that obligates them to install Windows on all their computers has
>been a very successful formula. Given this scenario I would expect Windows
>to be well ahead.
>
>I am a tech contractor and though much of my now limited work is in Windows
>PCs, I am also responsible to give my clients all the options that are
>available them, without prejudice. I am not cheering for Microsoft, Apple,
>Google or Linux. I am definitely not part of a Fanboz club, for any product
>and if one product gives the client what they need at the price they can
>afford, so be it.
>
>As for the Linux growth market, small though it may be, it has shown growth
>of over 64 percent in nine months...more than any other OS. Below is an
>interesting link:
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/amazons-top-selling-laptop-doesnt-run-windows-or-mac-o
s
>-it-runs-linux-7000009433/
>
>As a business person, if I did not take advantage of the vacuum caused by
>Windows 8, I would be seriously remiss. Our jobs are not to sell products
>but to sell solutions whether it is our personal preference or not.
>
>Jim 
>  
>
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