On 06/16/2012 02:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:04 +0300 > Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 16/06/12 21:27, walt wrote: >>> I guess they figure the desktop will be extinct relatively soon >>> and their customer base will vanish unless they capture the >>> smartphone market. >> >> Ah yes, the death of the desktop PC, which is happening for 15 years >> now. >> >> Are we dead yet? >> >> > > Fine comment. > > Yes indeed, Microsoft's *real* cash cow - millions of corporate > desktops running $LATEST_WINDOWS and $LATEST_OFFICE are all going to > die out in the next year. Not.
True enough. I'm forced to live in exactly that environment at work. A couple of years ago some beancounters discovered that the City of Los Angeles could save $BIG-MONEY by dumping MS and switching to the for-profit version of google docs. That caused a big stink over security and reliability, naturally, but in the end the beancounters won the argument. Corporations got beancounters too, ya know ;)
