Switch to Mac because MS is making their own (non-exclusive) hardware? Really? Has this guy forgotten the OS/hardware deal that you get with Apple?
Windows 8 is dead because enterprises aren't planning to upgrade? Most just got to Windows 7, they don't like change, so they'll stay there for another 5-10 years.
I doubt the writer believes anything he's written, but this is the nature of tech "journalism".
I mean, how insane is it when people have to work with technology on their job they've ditched 5-10 years ago at home for being too outdated to be even be give away? There comes a point where enterprise IT loses all credibility.
At this pace, during my lifetime homeless people in third world countries will have phones that are more modern and powerful computers than office workers will have at their desk. The practices enterprise IT currently still holds on to don't seem sustainable to me.
This. The client I work for is still _testing_ Windows 7. Rollout won't happen for a while yet. Windows 8? Might get looked in 2016, I guess.
The hype about Windows 8/enterprise now is hopefully just the company line when really the consumer side is who its initially trying to evolve for.