>>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".
As always there are 2 positions with the truth somewhere in between. ;-) The important numbers are the OS numbers. As for devices- I chose a HP Envy 17" so it would look like my daughters' Macbooks rather than the grandpa machine that it really is. ;-)
People may comfort themselves about browser apps on mobile devices, but there is no guarantee and no legal requirement for Apple or Google not to create additional advantage to use native apps. What would MS have done when it controlled the OS?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
