I can't find the link to his post, but he was talking about recent sales numbers and future projections released by one analysis company. They broke the numbers down by PC, Ultrabook, Laptop, tablet. PC and laptop. PC and laptop numbers showed decreases in sales. Pretty much every journalist jumped on that, saying that Microsoft was dead. Ed Bott took a different spin, saying "wait a minute. They're predicting ultrabook sales will increase".

But it all depends on how the analysists group things.

My point is the death of Microsoft has been predicted for a LONG time and its not dead yet. In fact, it just post big profit numbers.


>I have no particular insight into this dude, but he's putting an amazing spin onto dismaying figures. E.g. arguing over whether PC share should be 9% or 12% based on whether the Ultrabook is included: who cares? No hair splitting needed to see that use of mobile computing devices is an order of magnitude greater either way. Meanwhile enthusiastic predictions that Ultrabook will hit 40% by end of 2012 have tanked and now they're predicting 5% growth for PC and Ultrabook together by 2017. A win according to Bott- except that total growth is 79% meaning you need to grow 79% yourself just to maintain market share. 5% is a total disaster. Now look at the OS figures- Windows may have scavenged 2% sales from the loser OSs, hoorah, but Android is the juggernaut at almost 50%, amazing when you consider it includes PC and all devices, while Apple has doubled its OS share and is knocking on MS's door. Yep, you heard that right. iOS approaching Windows? And it's all a great win? Sounds like a panting MS poodle to me and it's even worse than I predicted this time last year. Shame- we needed MS to do OK to avoid a cozy duopoly. But it's all happening and you're too smart a dude to let them drag you into all this! Very, very clear that it's time to switch production from buggy whips to rubber tires if people want to have prospects in coming years.