>The ability to program in a browser. Which I see as another nail in the MS coffin -- although given business cycles and the gradual approach to change enterprises, in particular, have to take, I don't see the server market moving where devices have moved, and where notebooks are moving (the surprise winner in the notebook market has been the low-price Chromebook).

Yeah. I've always wanted to develop software in the browser on my phone.

Yeah.

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>>>>The big difference now is that it's being done.
>>What is being done?
>>I have GPS in my car. Does that count in the market share that MS is losing?
>>All my children and grandchildren have Samsung phones.
>>I have one too, and I use it make calls and to get the yardages on the golf course.
>>I never seriously thought about carrying a laptop around the golf course to get yardages, but if you think that MS lost market share, so be it.
>>What does that mean to the future of business computing?
>>My grandsons have Xbox's for games. During the 80's they might have had Amiga's.
>>What did that mean?
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>>>>>>>>>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".
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>>>>>>>As always there are 2 positions with the truth somewhere in between. ;-)
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>>>>>>In this market (and politics as well), whoever chooses to publicize two positions as the only ones worth considering, is usually both trying to build the frame for the big picture in a suitable way (suitable to his own goals) and also wrong. There are other positions along the line, beyond or between these, and outside of the line there's a whole space.
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>>>>>In this case I find John's numbers showing the two options with over 90% of the market pretty compelling.
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>>>>The numbers are compelling but I don't know what conclusion they're implying.
>>>>I'm still wondering what the percentage of phones or tablets being bought means to the future of business computing, which is what I do.
>>>>I was told with equal passion during the late 90's that I'd soon be programming on a Netscape desktop.
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>>>Heh-heh: I remember those days.
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>>>The big difference now is that it's being done. Well, not Netscape...
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>>>Hank