Call me a contrarian, but in a week in which Microsoft reported significantly shrinking quarterly revenues, I thought it might be worthwhile to find a few articles that are optimistic about the prospects of Windows 7. It’s hard to overstate just how vital it is for Microsoft to have Windows 7 adoption be enthusiastic, or at least healthy.
Ten things you’re going to like.
It’s gonna be fast.
Apple fanboys won’t be able to tarnish this rollout.
As time goes on, the things people do with computers differentiates and fragments more and more: rapid adoption of mobile hardware, netbooks, still-increasing time spent on the internet. How many things do you do with the box that is your laptop or desktop computer, today? So many companies focus on and succeed at doing small parts of the User Experience well, and as this fragmentation continues it seems unreasonable to expect a company’s size to be an automatic recipe for success. We are so far now from simply running apps on standalone PCs, and that was the time of Microsoft’s dominance. This may be a story less about Microsoft blowing it than about the world changing.
Their server business is still strong relative to other parts of their business, but losses in their online division actually exceeded online revenues. I’m not yet clear what the Microsoft dominance that we have all taken for granted for the last 25 or so years will become. They have a huge pile of cash…