{"id":18351,"date":"2013-06-11T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T10:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18351"},"modified":"2013-06-11T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T10:02:11","slug":"microsoft-reorganizes-itself-crafty-or-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/11\/microsoft-reorganizes-itself-crafty-or-confusing\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Reorganizes Itself – Crafty or Confusing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Microsoft Reorganizes Itself – Crafty or Confusing?<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a very nice summary of most Microsoft’s problems today, covering falling PC sales, mobile growth, tablet failure, Xbox, Office and Windows 8. \u00a0Half the value of the article is in the links to external studies and references.<\/p>\n

Everyone knows\u00a0PC sales<\/a>\u00a0have started dropping.\u00a0 IDC recently lowered its forecast<\/a>\u00a0for 2013 from a decline of 1.3% to negative 7.8%.\u00a0 The mobile market is already larger than PC sales, and IDC now expects tablet sales (excluding smartphones) to surpass\u00a0PCs<\/a>\u00a0in 2015.\u00a0 Because the PC is Microsoft\u2019s \u201ccore\u201d market, producing almost all the company\u2019s profitability, declining sales are not a good thing.<\/p>\n

Microsoft hoped Windows 8 would reverse the trend. That has not happened. Unfortunately, ever since its launch\u00a0Windows 8 has underperformed the horrific sales of Vista<\/a>.\u00a0 Eight months into the new product it is selling at about half the rate Vista did back in 2007, and that was the worst launch in company history. Win8 still has fewer users than Vista, and at 4% share a tenth that of market leaders Windows 7 and XP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Microsoft Reorganizes Itself – Crafty or Confusing? This is a very nice summary of most Microsoft’s problems today, covering falling PC sales, mobile growth, tablet failure, Xbox, Office and Windows 8. \u00a0Half the value of the article is in the links to external studies and references. Everyone knows\u00a0PC sales\u00a0have started dropping.\u00a0 IDC recently lowered its … Continue reading Microsoft Reorganizes Itself – Crafty or Confusing?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[1968,2076],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-business","tag-microsoft","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18703,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/24\/on-the-price-of-the-operating-systems\/","url_meta":{"origin":18351,"position":0},"title":"On the price of the operating systems","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Wired.com is running a good piece on the price of the operating systems. \u00a0It covers a bit of history and shows how things are now and how it all came a full circle - from free operating systems of the past, all through highly profitable years of Microsoft and Apple,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26077,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/28\/smartphone-shipment-is-flat-for-the-first-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":18351,"position":1},"title":"Smartphone shipment is flat for the first time","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Slashdot runs these two stories, a day apart: Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade Smartphone Shipments Flat For the First Time, Says IDC Nobody is dying (yet), but it's an interesting change in trends. \u00a0Read Slashdot comments for more insight.","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16173,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/21\/on-mobile-devices-in-the-workplace\/","url_meta":{"origin":18351,"position":2},"title":"On mobile devices in the workplace","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Web Worker Daily shares the results of an interesting study done by Forester Research: Forrester Research decided to find out recently, asking more than 10,000 information workers in 17 countries about\u00a0what devices they use to get their jobs done. 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