Jul 12, 2010
There’s a Shock
“Microsoft’s main pitch [for their tablet OS] is that they’ll be IT department-friendly …”, according to Gizmodo today.
How much longer they can continue to rely on the best sales force they never had to pay is open to question. One would think that IT departments would catch on that the priorities Microsoft has educated them to care about entail significant hidden costs. And if IT doesn’t get it on their own, one would think that their increasingly tech-savvy CEO’s would find someone who does.
Maybe, just maybe, the company that can’t manage to knock off a two-year old Motorola mobile phone design after reportedly spending hundreds of millions isn’t best equipped to understand what features are beneficial in a mobile tablet computer.
But it’s good to see Microsoft confident again. It seems like just yesterday they were predicting 80% market share in a couple of years in mobile phones. I wonder how that turned out?