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So between Apple's ritzy kickass mobile PCs and the boatloads of sub-$100 chinese Androids that will flood the market soon, is there any room for a third platform? I really don't see anything stopping RIM and Microsoft from ending up at the same dead end.

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For many years now, the majority of Microsoft's revenue has come from enterprise sales, and Apple and Google has a very long way to go to dominate that market.

I meant I see Microsoft's Windows Phone platform ending up in the same place the WebOS platform is in. Certainly Microsoft may stay in business selling refreshed versions of Office and Exchange. But I don't see how that will translate into success in an all-mobile + all-cloud computing world where Microsoft has no strength.

We use Windows 7 on our office workstations, and I was surprised and am daily impressed at how Mac-like it is. It doesn't get in the way of what you're trying to do.

Win 7 users: Try holding the combo Windows-key + Tab for a nice 3d carousel

> Win 7 users: Try holding the combo Windows-key + Tab for a nice 3d carousel

It's interesting that you attribute that to Win7 when in fact it was introduced in Vista.

We skipped Vista, XP SP3? was around forever.

I will have to read up on Vista, like did it have the auto close programs shutdown feature.

Yep.

I too was oblivious to this feature for months into my win7 experience.

I think that speaks to the usefulness of such eye candy.

win 7 user here on one of my home laptops - wow! thx

... and SharePoint, and Windows OS, and quite possibly Azure.

More "enterprise" companies seem to trust MS more than say Amazon or Google.

Should Microsoft worry when it comes to mobile? Maybe. But keep in mind that there's a niche market of creating some sort of "adapter" from native mobile app to render Microsoft non-compatible-but-crucial-enterprise-software from SharePoint to quite possibly Dynamic CRM/ERP.

Not defending MS, just stating what I see these days.

>I meant I see Microsoft's Windows Phone platform ending up in the same place the WebOS platform is in.

Ah.

... and Microsoft is about to get a bigger piece of the pie in the enterprise sales as IBM is slowly moving away from their own software offerings.

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