“OS X Yosemite achieved the kind of adoption in four days that took Microsoft’s Windows 8 two years to accomplish,” Jonny Evans reports for Computerworld. “n that two years, Apple has released three operating system versions, each one widely deployed by the growing-faster-then-the-PC industry congregation of Mac users. This at least is the claim coming from Backblaze.”
“The fact that the majority of these have not yet upgraded indicates either that many of the PCs in the wild are not being used or that Microsoft’s years of being able to charge for software upgrades are numbered,” Evans reports. “This means Microsoft will in future be unable to charge for OS upgrades, which will put its entire PC operating system business in peril. The thing is, so much of what the company does is based on the wide deployment of its operating system it will have no choice but to continue to develop it, while making diminishing returns on that investment. This is yet another symptom of Microsoft’s broken business model and the need for that company to migrate to new systems.”
“Apple is clearly winning hearts and minds in the consumer markets, which is itself prompting improvement in its position in the enterprise, as its users lobby for the right to use Macs at work as well as at home. Enterprise CIO’s, already happy with their experience using iPhones, seem only too willing to agree, as their own systems introduce OS X support,” Evans reports. “The only people moaning in this migration being a minority of diehards who still inhabit some tech support departments.”
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