Hi everybody.
Pcas1986, there has been some interesting news in regards to Windows PCs in the last couple of days which has been tied up with the overall developments of the Windows 10 platform.
In the smartphone market then the Microsoft Windows 10 sales performance has been nothing less than a disaster for the third financial quarter (Christmas period) of 2015. Of the total smartphone sales Microsoft Windows 10 handsets only made up one and a half percent of the market almost 50% down on the year previous. Microsoft’s chief executive Sayata Nadella informed the media that sales figures such as the above “are unsustainable” the foregoing has led many media analyst to report that Microsoft may withdraw from the smart phone market altogether within the next 12 months.
However, it was a very different story in another section of the mobile market where the sales of Microsoft’s Windows 10 surface pro 4 tablet exceeded all expectations. The surface pro sales performance outstripped both android and Apple taking 45% of the US market against 17% for Apple iPad and 38% for Google Android tablets. Similar figures are expected for the European and Asian markets.
Microsoft has concentrated heavily in selling its high end surface 4 four tablets to its traditional business user base by bundling the tablet with its Azure cloud-based services which encompasses office 360. The tablet in its 10 inch form comes with a detachable QWERTY keyboard which makes it a perfect replacement for many users to the traditional PC but has the advantage that it can be taken anywhere with you.
The foregoing sales figure does now make some sense of what the Microsoft executive meant when he stated last week that “Microsoft where now glimpsing the end of the Windows PC”. Obviously Microsoft now sees its surface tablets as playing a major part in the traditional office PC replacement.
In all the above, many Windows PC gamers will be wondering along with many media writers where the future of PC gaming is. Would the PC gaming market on its own be large enough to support the development of GPU’s, graphics cards and other ancillary equipment needed for high-end gaming. It would seem that many analysts are unsure with opinions divided on whether those developments can go hand-in-hand with what is needed for the mobile market.
As a clue to the future perhaps we can look to the launch this week of the Samsung Galaxy S7 on the Android platform which comes with a virtual reality headset for gaming. LG are also expected to release a similar smart phone in the next couple of weeks. With the user having the headset on, these phones are completely controlled by voice using the Google now application and the Startrek concept really does come to reality . The television advertising for the Samsung devise which started in Europe this morning make them look like a genuine step into the future.
Being an android fan and seeing the advertising it just made me think “hey, I have just got to get me one of these” :hehe:
Bill
Pcas1986, there has been some interesting news in regards to Windows PCs in the last couple of days which has been tied up with the overall developments of the Windows 10 platform.
In the smartphone market then the Microsoft Windows 10 sales performance has been nothing less than a disaster for the third financial quarter (Christmas period) of 2015. Of the total smartphone sales Microsoft Windows 10 handsets only made up one and a half percent of the market almost 50% down on the year previous. Microsoft’s chief executive Sayata Nadella informed the media that sales figures such as the above “are unsustainable” the foregoing has led many media analyst to report that Microsoft may withdraw from the smart phone market altogether within the next 12 months.
However, it was a very different story in another section of the mobile market where the sales of Microsoft’s Windows 10 surface pro 4 tablet exceeded all expectations. The surface pro sales performance outstripped both android and Apple taking 45% of the US market against 17% for Apple iPad and 38% for Google Android tablets. Similar figures are expected for the European and Asian markets.
Microsoft has concentrated heavily in selling its high end surface 4 four tablets to its traditional business user base by bundling the tablet with its Azure cloud-based services which encompasses office 360. The tablet in its 10 inch form comes with a detachable QWERTY keyboard which makes it a perfect replacement for many users to the traditional PC but has the advantage that it can be taken anywhere with you.
The foregoing sales figure does now make some sense of what the Microsoft executive meant when he stated last week that “Microsoft where now glimpsing the end of the Windows PC”. Obviously Microsoft now sees its surface tablets as playing a major part in the traditional office PC replacement.
In all the above, many Windows PC gamers will be wondering along with many media writers where the future of PC gaming is. Would the PC gaming market on its own be large enough to support the development of GPU’s, graphics cards and other ancillary equipment needed for high-end gaming. It would seem that many analysts are unsure with opinions divided on whether those developments can go hand-in-hand with what is needed for the mobile market.
As a clue to the future perhaps we can look to the launch this week of the Samsung Galaxy S7 on the Android platform which comes with a virtual reality headset for gaming. LG are also expected to release a similar smart phone in the next couple of weeks. With the user having the headset on, these phones are completely controlled by voice using the Google now application and the Startrek concept really does come to reality . The television advertising for the Samsung devise which started in Europe this morning make them look like a genuine step into the future.
Being an android fan and seeing the advertising it just made me think “hey, I have just got to get me one of these” :hehe:
Bill
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Microsoft frequently bombard me with Azure based development promos. Not for me at present.
But we will still need decent CPU processors and GPUs. How much of a market is required to sustain development.