We're talking about Microsoft, the giant of the computing industry for 15-20 years. Their overall influence is a tiny fraction of what it was.
Apple and Google are the major players now. Microsoft is an also-ran.
Apple and Google are the major players now. Microsoft is an also-ran.
Where money is being spent, Google and Apple are no where to be seen. They're just fighting over the fickle and low margin consumer market.
That theory would be more convincing were it not for the fact that Apple makes more money than Microsoft...
It doesn't matter if the tablets are running iOS, Android, or Windows. What does and will matter is, which can run Excel, which can run Word, and which can run Eclipse or Visual Studio? Because, besides IE6 apps that will continue to slowly fade, that's what businesses actually care about.
That's an open question. I would ask instead which ecosystem - Google, Bing/Hotmail/SkyDrive/Azure, Apple, Yahoo, etc. the customer uses as their "home" ecosystem.