> their market cap is like 10x in the past decade
Steve Ballmer left 6 years ago. Pick your source regarding Microsoft's market cap while Ballmer was leading:
Thanks for updating my view!
Also, a decade later, Microsoft is experiencing a software renaissance, in part, due to the the work Ballmer setup. One example: Azure. In the cloud space there are 2 gorillas: AWS and Azure (everything else is vaporware and at this point I don't think it would be wise to bet the farm on GCP or ... Oracle). How did Azure get here? Do you think they decided to do cloud and it happened magically?
Another example: the XBOX. I personally will never but a PS, and I believe XBOX is awesome in this space.
Microsoft's renaissance is mainly due to Nadella focusing on software and services instead of selling Windows. You mentioned Xbox as a way to support Ballmer. The Xbox story mentioned in the article does not support Ballmer.
Agreed re Azure but I don't know if Ballmer was still focusing on Windows for Azure, which seems likely. Keep in mind Azure is mostly Linux instances today.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....
The point was about actually working on documents with a proper level of quality that aspires to good evaluations.
Then proper copy-paste workflows across applications when placing those pictures into the word document, alongside the table created in Excel for the respective field information and bar charts with the results.
Yes, it is doable, but better have lots of patience and time available to jump through all the obstacles to make it work on Android tablets.
There is also the possibility to use a pen instead, which again is very much hit and miss across Android tablets, more miss than hit actually, when compared with the capabilities of Windows Ink and surface pens.
https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/mobile-desktop-internet...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263393/global-pc-shipmen...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263437/global-smartphone...
The original proposition was that desktop sales would rise with mobile sales (with a lag time), and that's clearly not the case to this point, and there are no indicators that will ever be true.
Phones, even the premium tier are a much less costly investment than a desktop PC. In addition to the $1500-$2500 for a decent desktop computer you also have all the supporting bits, a desk to put it on, a chair, maybe a printer, + the floorspace to house it all.
With a phone it's just the phone, and maybe a case. So while a household might be satisfied with a single desktop computer, every member of the household is going to want their own phone. More devices per household + higher turn over frequency = higher volume annual sales even at saturation.
2) Do you have any data to back up the claim that mobile usage leads to desktop purchases? I have never heard such a claim before
Additionally given the amount of people that run Office on their phones, in spite of total lack of usability to do such kind of work on those devices, again very good reaction.
windows is most popular os on desktop/home/work(non-server) PCs?
My smartphone is a computer, which I use at home and work, and it sure as hell doesn't run Windows. Smartphones are a far more significant type of computer in the modern world than laptop or desktop PCs.