Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Apr 2008 12:57 UTC, submitted by estherschindler
"In a session at the Gartner Emerging Trends conference today, analysts Neil MacDonald and Michael Silver identified many reasons that Windows (and thus Microsoft) are in trouble. Microsoft's operating system development times are too long and they deliver limited innovation; their OSs provide an inconsistent experience between platforms, with significant compatibility issues; and other vendors are out-innovating Microsoft. That gives enterprises unpredictable releases with limited value, management costs that are too high, and new releases that break too many applications and take too long to test and adopt. With end users bringing their own software solutions into the office... Well, it's just a heck of a sad story for Microsoft."
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The article, very surprisingly for Gartner who are usually the biggest load of analyst windbags on the planet, was actually making sense as I read it. Needless to say, the idiocy of Gartner reared its usual ugly head on the final page.
They'd actually taken the bold step on the second page of suggesting companies look at "OS agnostic" applications (which, in plainer language, means cross-platform Open Source software most of the time). Needless to say, they didn't actually want to name any apps explicitly (OpenOffice.org is the biggie, because replacing MS Office with that directly hits MS'es bottom line).
So I read the final page after mucho criticism of Vista and what do I see? Well, the page on shifting to another OS only suggests that companies calculate the cost of moving - no actual suggestion that they do actually move to another OS (or, indeed, any ideas on how that might be done).
But, wait, it gets worse. They then, as usual, ruin the whole gist of the article by stating that if you're planning to move to Vista, go ahead and install it now! So after berating Vista for how unsuitable it is as an ungrade, they tell you to ignore everything they said earlier - what a bunch of losers you are, Gartner. Mind you, it just continues their history of spouting utter rubbish to the public, so I shouldn't be surprised really.