PC: Dead Or Alive
If we have to believe the media comments on the latest PC shipment numbers, the PC market is just about dead; thanks to the media tablets and smartphones. But when looking more closely at the shipment...
View ArticleDefining Tablets – The Three Ringed Circus
Market researchers need to define what features make a workstation more than a PC, or a ‘smart’ phone more than a feature phone, if they want to size and forecast their markets. In the case of tablets...
View ArticleThe Future Of The Desktop Is Out Of The Box
In 3001 Frank Poole was brought back alive after floating in space for about a 1000 years after HAL got a mind of its own. Being revived, Frank was at first not really connected to his new environment,...
View ArticleHP Should Return To Technology Roots
Q3 2012 results from HP showed a massive loss of almost $9 billion. This is by far the biggest loss in HP’s history. Should we fear the collapse of the big tech giant? The facts: Q3 2012 shows $29.7...
View ArticleW8!
Microsoft has put a lot of eggs in the Windows 8 basket but they don’t have much of a choice. The PC market has peaked and its base will slowly fade. The tablet market is buoying for some years now but...
View ArticleDesktop Virtualization: We Had A Solution, Now We Have The Problem
Last week The METISfiles analyst Marcel Warmerdam was invited to join IDG’s webcast on desktop virtualization led by Tom Sanders. Other participants were William van Collenburg from VMware and Erik...
View ArticleTablet Getting Ready for Business
When Apple launched its iPad in 2010 a new device market was born. With Apple’s success competitors soon launched their tablets. It appeared that the PC was to be replaced by the tablet. Of course it...
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