Guest Ubuntista Vistuntu Posted October 17, 2008 Posted October 17, 2008 My commentrary: Exactly as I predicted! Gesh I should become a TECH PROPHET or something! lol What will happen is that the current model of huge bloated power-hungry OS's like Vista (the best example of a FAT PIG WITH LIPSTICK) will NOT survive. New technologies that can work on small and cheap processors and with small solid state hard drives and little ram will be needed. All these machines will use the CLOUD more and more. When I was talking all about this a year ago, the microsoft dork fanbois had absolutely NO IDEA what the heck I was talking about. But you see they don't have a broad understanding of events going on. This is not MAGIC or PSYCHIC abilities. Whatever I say is based on logic and insight on events that have started many years ago. Vista is a DINOSAUR you can start the burial ceremony starting from now, because this type of stupidly designed OS will not be around for long. Things are going to change... and MS knows this... that's why they are trying to make a new CLOUD OS. A few months ago the stupid fanbois didn't even know what I was talking about... lol article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Trouble-Ahead-for-Microsoft-039-s-Windows-OS-95839.shtml There is trouble ahead for Microsoft's Windows operating system. The Redmond company's flagship product is in for a tough run because of the U.S. credit crunch and the global financial problems it generated. In this context, both IDC and Gartner, two market analysis companies, warned that the PC industry have been affected by the impact of the worldwide economic crisis. Still, that is just a part of the picture. If the PC industry is hurt in terms of lower volumes of PC shipments, Microsoft will also be affected with sales of the Windows operating system intimately connected with the company's OEM partners. The "global PC market finally felt the impact from global economic downturn. The U.S. professional market experienced the biggest hit from the economic crunch. The U.S. home market saw definite softness in PC sales after a few quarters of strong growth," revealed Mika Kitagawa, principal analyst for Gartner's Client Computing Markets group. "The Asia/Pacific PC market was impacted by a slowdown in China. PC growth in Latin America was slow relative to historical levels, but it was still in line with the forecast." Preliminary United States PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for 3Q08 (Thousands of Units) Enlarge picture According to statistics made available by Gartner, PC shipments worldwide climbed to 80.6 million units in the third quarter of this year. The figure represents an increase of 15% compared to the same quarter of 2007. Still, Gartner explained that the growth is supported by strong unit sales in the mini-notebook segment with a focus on EMEA, the region composed of Europe, Middle East and Africa. Gartner put Hewlett-Packard in the lead worldwide with 14,7 million shipments and a 18.4% share of the market, Dell in second place with 10.9 million units sold and a market share of 13.6%, and Acer third with 10 million shipments and 12.5%. IDC also emphasized computer sales barely managed to meet expectations. IDC claims that OEMs sold 80.1 million PCs worldwide, with HP having a market share of 18.8% and accounting for 15 million sold units. Dell comes in second with 14.2% of the market and sales of 11.3 million units and Acer gets the bronze for a market share of 12.5% and 10 million shipments. Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide PC Shipments, Third Quarter 2008 (Preliminary) (Units Shipments are in thousands) Enlarge picture "The difficult economic environment accelerated toward the end of the third quarter. The commercial segment has been constrained due to tight IT budgets, while back-to-school spending helped somewhat in maintaining momentum," said Doug Bell, research analyst, Personal Computing. "IDC expects the ongoing economic woes in the U.S. to further impact consumer and commercial PC spending during the holiday season." No less than 80% of the revenue attributed to the Windows Client division comes from original equipment manufacturers, namely sales of Windows operating systems pre-loaded on personal computers. In this context, if the PC industry slips, Microsoft will also slip. Of course, Microsoft is not relying strictly on sales of Windows in order to survive. In the 2008 fiscal year, sales of Windows generated a revenue of $14.45 billion out of the company's total $68.0 billion.
Guest Alias Posted October 17, 2008 Posted October 17, 2008 Re: Article: Trouble Ahead for Microsoft's Windows OS Ubuntista Vistuntu wrote: > My commentrary: > Exactly as I predicted! Gesh I should become a TECH PROPHET or > something! lol > What will happen is that the current model of huge bloated power-hungry > OS's like Vista (the best example > of a FAT PIG WITH LIPSTICK) will NOT survive. New technologies that can > work on small and cheap processors and with small solid state hard > drives and little ram will be needed. All these machines will use the > CLOUD more and more. When I was talking all about this a year ago, the > microsoft dork fanbois had absolutely NO IDEA what the heck I was > talking about. But you see they don't have a broad understanding of > events going on. This is not MAGIC or PSYCHIC abilities. Whatever I say > is based on logic and insight on events that have started many years ago. > > Vista is a DINOSAUR you can start the burial ceremony starting from now, > because this type of stupidly designed OS will not be around for long. > Things are going to change... and MS knows this... that's why they are > trying to make a new CLOUD OS. A few months ago the stupid fanbois > didn't even know what I was talking about... lol > > article: > > http://news.softpedia.com/news/Trouble-Ahead-for-Microsoft-039-s-Windows-OS-95839.shtml > > > There is trouble ahead for Microsoft's Windows operating system. The > Redmond company's flagship product is in for a tough run because of the > U.S. credit crunch and the global financial problems it generated. In > this context, both IDC and Gartner, two market analysis companies, > warned that the PC industry have been affected by the impact of the > worldwide economic crisis. Still, that is just a part of the picture. If > the PC industry is hurt in terms of lower volumes of PC shipments, > Microsoft will also be affected with sales of the Windows operating > system intimately connected with the company's OEM partners. > > The "global PC market finally felt the impact from global economic > downturn. The U.S. professional market experienced the biggest hit from > the economic crunch. The U.S. home market saw definite softness in PC > sales after a few quarters of strong growth," revealed Mika Kitagawa, > principal analyst for Gartner's Client Computing Markets group. "The > Asia/Pacific PC market was impacted by a slowdown in China. PC growth in > Latin America was slow relative to historical levels, but it was still > in line with the forecast." > > Preliminary United States PC Vendor Unit Shipment Estimates for 3Q08 > (Thousands of Units) > Enlarge picture > According to statistics made available by Gartner, PC shipments > worldwide climbed to 80.6 million units in the third quarter of this > year. The figure represents an increase of 15% compared to the same > quarter of 2007. Still, Gartner explained that the growth is supported > by strong unit sales in the mini-notebook segment with a focus on EMEA, > the region composed of Europe, Middle East and Africa. Gartner put > Hewlett-Packard in the lead worldwide with 14,7 million shipments and a > 18.4% share of the market, Dell in second place with 10.9 million units > sold and a market share of 13.6%, and Acer third with 10 million > shipments and 12.5%. > > IDC also emphasized computer sales barely managed to meet expectations. > IDC claims that OEMs sold 80.1 million PCs worldwide, with HP having a > market share of 18.8% and accounting for 15 million sold units. Dell > comes in second with 14.2% of the market and sales of 11.3 million units > and Acer gets the bronze for a market share of 12.5% and 10 million > shipments. > > Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide PC Shipments, Third Quarter 2008 (Preliminary) > (Units Shipments are in thousands) > Enlarge picture > "The difficult economic environment accelerated toward the end of the > third quarter. The commercial segment has been constrained due to tight > IT budgets, while back-to-school spending helped somewhat in maintaining > momentum," said Doug Bell, research analyst, Personal Computing. "IDC > expects the ongoing economic woes in the U.S. to further impact consumer > and commercial PC spending during the holiday season." > > No less than 80% of the revenue attributed to the Windows Client > division comes from original equipment manufacturers, namely sales of > Windows operating systems pre-loaded on personal computers. In this > context, if the PC industry slips, Microsoft will also slip. Of course, > Microsoft is not relying strictly on sales of Windows in order to > survive. In the 2008 fiscal year, sales of Windows generated a revenue > of $14.45 billion out of the company's total $68.0 billion. > > Cloud computing isn't ready for prime time yet. Not too many businesses want all their data on someone else's server. Alias
Guest Plato Posted October 19, 2008 Posted October 19, 2008 Re: Article: Trouble Ahead for Microsoft's Windows OS Ubuntista Vistuntu wrote: > > Vista is a DINOSAUR you can start the burial ceremony starting from now, Perhaps. With the downturn in the Stock Market anything is possible... -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
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