The PC replacement cycle: Will Windows 7 light the fuse?

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Are your figures right?

You seem to be suggesting that in 2009 300 million PC will be converting to or installed with Vista. This seems a little on the high side.

Windows 7 will inevitably have an impact long term how long corporates take to start their mover will depend on what they think it offers beyond what they get from their XP systems.

The problems all PC and software makes suffer from is that everything has become incremental. You had to keep going forward in the past because things has so many bugs. Now it much more marginal.

The killer app for the home may be when they finally work out how to integrate the PC into the home but for some reason MS stopped after media centre and has not done much to move things forward.

The killer app for business has probably gone for ever or at least become more sparse. The cloud changes much but in some ways that takes away from the importance of the PC and PC based apps anyway.

Posted by: martin23   Posted on: 06/08/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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