Star Has Microsoft Missed the Boat With Mobile?
Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 16th Sep 2009 20:06 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless Sometime ago I conjectured that Microsoft made certain changes to IE8 to force web standards forward and drop backwards compatibility as default (a very un-Microsoft move) because of the need for the web to break out of the blinkered IE6 / Desktop-Browser view of content otherwise Microsoft would find itself unable to compete in the mobile space. It's been over a year since that article and in such a short period of time it has become ever clearer that Microsoft's mobile offerings, and their overall mobile platform strategy are failing against the dominant iPhone, the newcomer Android, and a re-invigorated Palm with WebOS.
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lemur2
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2007-02-17

It is just a very big zombie that will walk for quite a while longer. MSFT _cannot_ compete against FOSS where competitors work together and ship their products with. So Android/Maemo/etc will win the majority of the market for mobile phones (Apple will still make a lot of money from their fans) That will be the first step in MSFT downfall. Next will be Smartbooks/Netbooks. Linux (Ubuntu/ChromeOS/whatever) will make those devices with ARM CPUs shine at ZERO cost. Once ODF is standard everywhere the Office monopoly will start to crumble. In the long run MSFT will still earn a lot of money from legacy support, dev tools, games/consoles and special business software (sharepoint in peticular). BUT it won't dictate our lifes any longer (think IBM).


The Linux Foundation welcomes ARM


http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/145342

The most interesting point in that article is this one:
"To date, ARM has shipped more than 10 billion ARM processors in mobile devices, many of which run Linux."


That is not a number to be sneezed at.

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