Comments on: Here Comes the Windows 7 Hardware http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/22/here-comes-the-windows-7-hardware/ Channel News, Reseller News and Channel Partner Programs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/22/here-comes-the-windows-7-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-105625 The VAR Guy Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:25:44 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=5422#comment-105625 Simplicius: It's more than a Windows 7 conversation. Disruptive technologies (virtualization, open source, SaaS, cloud) challenge Microsoft on every front. It's similar to the PC challenging IBM in the 1980s. IBM adapted and emerged even stronger... but the Big Blue evolution required a decade or more. Similarly, Microsoft's fate will take years to play out. Simplicius: It’s more than a Windows 7 conversation. Disruptive technologies (virtualization, open source, SaaS, cloud) challenge Microsoft on every front. It’s similar to the PC challenging IBM in the 1980s. IBM adapted and emerged even stronger… but the Big Blue evolution required a decade or more.

Similarly, Microsoft’s fate will take years to play out.

]]> By: Simplicius http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/22/here-comes-the-windows-7-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-105622 Simplicius Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:07:48 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=5422#comment-105622 Today MSFT reported a -18% in net income for the quarter "largely because it deferred revenue when it let summertime PC buyers get free upgrades to Windows 7" (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9BGS9O80.htm) Meanwhile Apple reported a reality-defying +47% in net income and Google a +27%. Microsoft had better be successful with Win 7. Today MSFT reported a -18% in net income for the quarter “largely because it deferred revenue when it let summertime PC buyers get free upgrades to Windows 7″ (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9BGS9O80.htm)

Meanwhile Apple reported a reality-defying +47% in net income and Google a +27%.

Microsoft had better be successful with Win 7.

]]> By: Lawrence D'Oliveiro http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/22/here-comes-the-windows-7-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-105599 Lawrence D'Oliveiro Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:47:55 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=5422#comment-105599 So far, no difference from Vista. Nearly all consumer machines were shipping with the new system when it came out, too. So far, no difference from Vista. Nearly all consumer machines were shipping with the new system when it came out, too.

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