[–] merton 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Chromebooks have maintained their education season buying momentum with sales up 38 percent over 2014 and, for the first time, exceeding sales of Windows notebooks and passing the 50 percent market share threshold through B2B channels during the June and early July period.
For the B2B only it seems.
[–] shirtlords 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
So... how much money will m$ have to lose before it un-shits its OS?
[–] 1848137? [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Microsoft is so stuck in a reality distortion field of their own making that they believe the decline of the desktop is simply markets shifting, but in reality, Windows 8 seriously slowed the purchase of Windows computers, while the market share of other desktop operating systems increased. Tablets and phones are no replacement for desktop computers, but Microsoft is convinced that the desktop is dead, so Windows 10 is merely a marketing tool to push their new mobile first cloud first agenda, no more, no less.
[–] shirtlords 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I know all of those points quite well, I'm wondering how much market share they have to lose before the people resposible are kicked out of the company.
Then again, m$ holds the stack-ranking endurance record, so the amount of cancer in the company is an iceberg of a variable.
[–] 1846703? [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
In short, for businesses, tablets are on the decline and laptops are rising once again. As Baker observed, "Windows was not impacted by the upcoming release of Windows 10, MacBooks grew the most of any platform, and Google saw Chrome rise to take the number one spot in market share. All these results continue to point to strong channel demand for PCs and continue to belie the notion that any other devices are threatening the long-term business case for the notebook."
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[–] 1848109? [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It seems like the only compelling case for Windows would be the current lead in blockbuster games and other proprietary software that only runs on Windows, such as custom applications or certain specialized applications. Those three things I just mentioned aren't set in stone, and we will see how things evolve over the next five years, but when Windows 7 goes away, a lot of businesses will have been planning a transition away from anything resembling Windows 8 or 10 IMO.
[–] 1847779? [S] ago (edited ago)
Windows 7 suffered from OEM bloatware but it could all be manually uninstalled (but yeah the Superfish and Bios things were highly unusual), but Windows 8 added another whole level of issues, and Windows 10 a new can of worms, so I'm not surprised that Chrome, Linux, Mac, are going to gain desktop/laptop market share, all at the expense of Windows.
[–] 84626433832795028841 2 points 0 points 2 points (+2|-2) ago
You must be retarded to buy a Chromebook unless you are going to use it for Linux, which is still pretty stupid.