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Does Windows 8 OS have a fighting chance against Apple IOS and the iPad?
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Yes, of course. There's still a lot of perceived value in Windows and a large value chain supporting it. No problem for MS here - and this from a Mac user who has no plans to use Windows 8 in any mission-critical app. My last Microsoft OS in that role was XP. Vista convinced me to go with Apple for day-to-day activities. We use Windows 7 only in the lab and for special projects.
Microsoft operating systems have by and large been disappointing - hard to use and support, buggy, slow, unreliable, complex, and expensive. I think Windows 8 will continue the W7 shift away from this, but, if one has already dropped MS OSes, Windows 8 won't provide an incentive to pick them back up.
But keep in mind that almost everyone uses a Windows-based PC, and that's not going to change anytime soon. iOS and related mobile OSes will not replace Windows for a very long time, if ever. There's just too large an installed base, too deep a value chain, and too much inertia at work here.
Craig makes some seriously good point here.
The Windows eco system is still very dominant in business, and the early looks at what Microsoft has to offer are quite intriguing. For all the dominance that Apple has from a consumer standpoint, the overall tablet market is still young and open, and the corporate tablet market is even more so.
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It would be really tough for businesses that have a heavy investment in the Windows platform to move away from it to iOS. They can't realistically gut all of their existing applications.
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