Windows was the dominant (90%+) force in the consumer computing devices market for about a decade and a half … but OH MY … how things have changed :-)
http://www.zdnet.com/windows-has-fallen-behind-apple-ios-and-google-android-7000008699/
Microsoft is down to 29% of the market because, unlike Bill Gates’ now infamous commandment in the 90s that everything Microsoft did would become about the Internet, they appear to have just begun waking up to the new landscape. It appears that the 2000s are Microsoft’s lost decade …
Anyway, Surface looks pretty nice and the WIndows 8 phones look nice too (where Metro really belongs) so let the games begin … note that the graph clearly shows that Apple has been steady state for a very long time in terms of market share, so the battle for market share appears to be – for now at least – between Google Android and Microsoft Windows 8. Time will reveal all of course …
