The typical two year PC upgrade cycle and Microsoft's software roadmap is not going to hold in a Web-centric app-happy world. Does Redmond get it?
There are two sides to Microsoft: big corporate installation Microsoft looking after the needs of companies that like things under control and predictable; geezer Microsoft chasing after anyone that threatens its turf in the consumer computing space.
So, let's forget about big corporate loving Microsoft because, it has a license to print money, and for the foreseeable future, it is going to dictate how its customers evolve their vast PC installations so that they don't end breaking their vast IT infrastructures.
Windows 8: Microsoft losing the upgrade thread | TG Daily
There are two sides to Microsoft: big corporate installation Microsoft looking after the needs of companies that like things under control and predictable; geezer Microsoft chasing after anyone that threatens its turf in the consumer computing space.
So, let's forget about big corporate loving Microsoft because, it has a license to print money, and for the foreseeable future, it is going to dictate how its customers evolve their vast PC installations so that they don't end breaking their vast IT infrastructures.
Windows 8: Microsoft losing the upgrade thread | TG Daily