[PCWorld]

Post your comments for Windows 8, Surface tablets will lead Microsoft's fight for relevance here

[thewazak]

"Microsoft's fight for relevance" ?????????????????????
I guess having only 400 million customers makes them a bit peripheral.

[Dmmtc]

I love my Windows 8 Tablet. I no longer carry a notebook.

[TechConc]

thewazak, on 07 January 2013 - 10:31 AM, said:

"Microsoft's fight for relevance" ?????????????????????
I guess having only 400 million customers makes them a bit peripheral.

Being a supplier doesn't necessarily make you relevant. Setting the direction, setting the standards, etc. makes you relevant. Microsoft has been playing follow the leader for years now. You can be very profitable at that as long as you have a monopoly. However, as the paradigm shifts from desktop to mobile, where is Microsoft in that landscape? Mobile devices outsell desktops now. Even smartphones alone outsell desktops. Add tablets to that and ask where Microsoft fits into that picture. Surface? Not hardly.

[Kanzeon]

rel·e·vant[ rélləvənt ]:


1. connected: having some sensible or logical connection with something else such as a matter being discussed or investigated


2. having social significance: having some bearing on or importance for real-world issues, present-day events, or the current state of society.

It's a misuse of language to say that Microsoft isn't relevant. If may not make good business decisions, and eventually fail. But it isn't fighting for relevance.

You might say that its newer products - Surface and Windows Phone - are fighting for relevance, just as one might question the relevance of chromebooks or the relevance of Apple in the desktop market.

[berock212]

I don't get why Windows 8 isn't selling. I can see why it wouldn't be selling for desktop due to the fact that it is very different from the popular Windows 7. But for mobile Windows 8 shines. It is far superior to any other mobile operating system (except for apps where is lacks extremely) and the surface is one of the best designed tablets I've seen.

[SElope]

That is how life is: What happens when you push everybody out? You become alone. Isn´t that what Microsoft has done to the PC? They have managed to have the whole PC to themselves. Congratulations. What happens when you kick everybody out of the party? You are alone by yourself.

And they even did another great thing last year: they tried to kick out the OEM PC makers. Great Job!!!

For 30 years, the PC flourished because everybody was making something for it. it was a graphic card, or a mouse, or a program. Now Intel and Microsoft have closed the PC just for themselves. A complete monopoly without Nescape, or Wordperfect or Lotus. Congratulations: You have killed innovation and are wondering why people are bored with the PC. Everybody, and all the talent are moving to open source where they can make use of their talents.

Goodby Microsoft. Hello open source!!!

[thewazak]

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I don't get why Windows 8 isn't selling.

Fear not! It IS selling - and selling well.
Ignore the fanboi prophets of doom who are simply worried about how well W8 will actually do in the long run - and come up with ridiculous notions about the new OS - usually because they know Apple, having only just started to recover from coming to the mini tablet party late, will again have to play catch-up.
IT blogs are traditionally somewhat anti-Microsoft. They are the usual punchbag for frustrated churnalists and fanbois!
Bear in mind that W7 was (and remains) an excellent OS - and that many have only just upgraded to it, so for the majority there is no rush to move. Uptake is understandably "slow".
But that has not stopped the US military from buying $600M worth of W8 from Microsoft. They just want the best in the new increasingly mobile IT world where a common OS across platforms just makes sense.

[max999]

LOL! Windows 8 will be Microsoft's biggest failure!

Win8 is the problem period!!! Just face the facts!!! It is the worse OS I have ever used!!! Linux is easier to use than W8!

[karthiq]

I guess.....win7 is making win8 fail