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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says PC Market Is Finally Stabilizing (fortune.com)
In a call with analysts on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the consumer PC market is finally stabilizing after being in a long decline. His statement echoes a recent report by International Data Corporation in which the market research firm said it was optimistic that the PC market would rebound this year after five years of contraction as people switched to mobile devices. Fortune reports: Nadella, however, did not cite specific numbers showing that the consumer PC market was rallying. He merely said that video gamers seem to be buying high-end computers loaded with Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system, raising hope of an overall recovery in the PC market. Additionally, Nadella said that businesses are increasingly upgrading to Windows 10, which is noteworthy because several other third-party research firms said in November that Windows 10 adoption numbers seemed low. "I think the overall adoption cycle of Windows 10 in the enterprise is perhaps the best we have seen for any new release of Windows," Nadella said. Still, Microsoft's personal computing business unit that includes Windows 10 dropped 5% year-over-year in the latest quarter to $11.8 billion. Still, the unit's revenue was better than what the company had originally projected because of an unexpected uptick in Windows 10 sales, said chief financial officer Amy Hood. Microsoft said that the money it collects from sales of Windows by other PC makers rose 5% in the latest quarter, which Nadella said highlights an "improving commercial PC market and enterprise demand." Nadella said that computer manufacturers that use Windows are seeing an uptick in sales of high-end PCs. He took credit for the rise by saying that the Surface blazed the trail for other manufacturers to create similar devices, which are selling well. "The enterprise adoption of these new devices is driving the all around excitement of Windows 10," Nadella said.
Nadella: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
Voice: What happened?
Nadella: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
Voice: We're sending a squad up.
Nadella: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous.
Voice: Who is this? What's your operating number?
Nadella: Uh...
[Nadella shoots the intercom]
Nadella: [muttering] Boring conversation anyway.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
More like Kellyanne Conway unmasked. "I have to conclude the investor meeting, I've got to change into Revolutionary garb to make America safe from inconvenient facts!"
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
you mean "bottoming out" then you might just be right for a change. the only people (customers) left are those who don't want the limited capability and form factor of a tablet or phone.
but until you get your grubby greedy hands off of users' data and lives, and return control over their computers back to them, you will NOT see a single penny of new sales from us.
** microsoft account needed for office, even to just install? (or subscribe? hell fucking no.) nope, free programs exist that work just fine for us... until part two (below) is complete, that is.
** privacy snooping, program breaking, computer breaking updates forced down our throats? windows update crippled and broken since xp days just to "encourage" windows 10 adoption (in which updates is just as broken.. failed updates redownloading constantly, chewing up bandwidth even 'metered' wifi). cant set a wired connection as 'metered' even though many have just that. usage limits? nope, migrating everything possible to linux as i type. and we have contingencies already in place for keeping needed, existing windows 7 and 8 but pulling them offline once they get forced into retirement. same thing we went through with xp. WE WILL NEVER USE WINDOWS 10. PERIOD. NO EXCEPTION. we don't want "apps" or an "app store", we want APPLICATIONS. we don't want "the cloud" bullshit either.
consoles? fuck that, you lost that battle. phones? tablets? nope. sorry, you lose here too, big time.
You're blaming them, but you're the one who had to spend two weeks futzing with it and kept using it.
Take responsibility for your own actions, however awful windoze is, as a windoze user you have responsibility for every negative impact it inflicts on you. And if you're in IT, you have responsibility for all the harm you've inflicted on users with it.
We just stopped buying PCs every year because you give us no reason to. Both the hardware and the software guys. Bring back 30% increases in performance between CPU generations and you'll see people buying PCs more often again.