Which? Conversation: Microsoft is attempting to whip up a frenzy around its next operating system, Windows 8, at its BUILD conference. To me, there’s nothing to get excited about – other than the fact that Microsoft is finally catching up.
Microsoft is laying off more employees, a new round after they cut thousands last year. It seems like many big tech companies are doing the same.
Amidst the AI frenzy of 2023, major players like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are in the spotlight, launching their own generative AI systems.
Microsoft has made it easy for iPhone users to check their mobile updates on Windows-enabled computers.
Microsoft became irrelevant the moment they announced their Online Office (whatever it's called) some months ago. They celebrated and shouted, "look what we did!" but failed to add the qualifier, "only 3 years after Google did it!" They have been, for almost 10 years now, consistently 3 years (almost to the day) behind the industry trends, and the only thing keeping them funded right now is the momentum of Windows and MS Office licenses. Once desktop Windows workstations drop below some critical percentage of the market, MS will very quickly topple - they're too big to fund if their market share drops and they're too slow to change their market position fast enough to survive. In 12-15 years, MS' only surviving business unit will likely be the group maintaining MS Office.
Your comment is completely ignorant of the fact that over 70% of the world still uses Windows platforms, develops their products for Windows platforms, and develops ON Windows platforms. This includes everybody from small start-ups to full government and defense agencies, who have and will continue to renew their contracts with Microsoft. If you think MS is going anywhere other than where it is, then you've got some bizarre and optimistic outlook on life.
windows 8 looks amazing, you can still have your old look by clicking a desktop app, the way all 3 systems will now have the same look, xbox live is integrated and it will run butter smooth on tablets and give pc users the same new feel. Yes they might be late to the game but windows 8 looks like it will get it right.