Microsoft Windows has been the undisputed king of personal computers for at least two decades, from basic Internet access to editing photos taken with a camera. The system has, nevertheless, fared unusually poorly in today's 2013 top new gadgets.
Case in point: a news from the International Data Corporation (IDC) unveiling that Microsoft Windows held a miserable 4% in tablet computer operating systems for the second quarter of 2013. Windows RT - the OS that Microsoft wishes would have been utilised in mobile devices like cell phones - debuted at a weak 5 % industry share in the exact same quarter.
Compare these numbers to Apple's iOS and Google's Android - 62.6 % and 32.5 % respectively - and you can see just how badly Microsoft has been unable to penetrate the new gadgets coming out in the market.
This is a quite significant signal of Microsoft's fate in the coming future. More and more individuals are turning to great electronics gadgets like phablets and tablets instead of desktop computers and laptop computers. If Microsoft's Windows platforms are not used on the new gadgets to come out in the market, then it will see itself continuously but certainly get strangled out of the business.
What is far more troubling is that Microsoft is starting to fall away Google in a market that was traditionally Microsoft's: laptops.
Even if you disregard the hot tech electronics gadgets coming out and focus on laptop PCs, you will see that Google's Chrome operating system is starting to turn into well-known enough to threaten Microsoft. Acer played a huge function in introducing individuals to Windows 8 by plunging the new technologies in its laptops, but two consecutive quarters of losses has forced the former Windows stalwart to start selling laptops powered by Chrome instead of Windows.
Acer isn't the only organization that has started flirting with the Chrome and Android operating systems. Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo are two important PC players that have started using Chromebooks into their rosters. All 3 hardware makers, nevertheless, are seeing a fall in desktop and laptop computer sales. Lenovo and Acer are in a position to somewhat fill the gaps with increased tablet pc sales, but HP is the only organization that has been unable to see any substantial sales in its own lines of tablet computers.
And here's the most telling indicator that individuals are not understanding the new path that Microsoft is taking: the older Windows 7 and Windows XP operating systems are actually gaining market even though Windows 8 has been out for so long now. The current market share for Windows 8 is at 5.4%, which grew .3% from final month. This growth, nevertheless, was not gained from customers upgrading from Windows XP or Windows 7 but from the anemically received Windows Vista - which declined by 38%. Windows 7 grew .12% to attain 44.49% whilst Windows XP saw a startling 0.02 % crawl in spite of it becoming over 11 years old.
To cut a long story brief, Microsoft is becoming old and not in the new gadgets that individuals are expecting . If the aged makers of the PC can not click with the customers of the newest electronics gadgets, then all it can do is lay on its deathbed and wait for the end to come.
