Most of us are either a PC or a MAC and we wouldn't like to switch from/to either OS. But cloud computing seems to be give a complete twist to this situation. Given the fact that we are hooked on to the internet 24*7, it is easy for a player like Google to come up with its Chrome OS and tell us that you won't need any heavy processing OS on your laptop and just carry a light weight netbook and use our applications for free. What should Google and Apple do in this case? What is going to happen to the years worth of OS licensing business? Microsoft and Apple moving to netbook business could be a better solution?
But the next few years would still be good for the traditional OS business which is evident from Microsoft's 60% increase due to Windows 7 sales. My guess is that Apple's long speculated iPad is probably not the right time now to get released and it is going to be hard for Apple to justify the necessity of an iPad.
But it is inevitable that Microsoft's OS would be in trouble soon in the consumer market especially with consumers on the go. Though Microsoft offers OfficeLive, how many of us even know about it?
Having used Microsoft OS for running most of the software development tools, I doubt that Microsoft's enterprise market will have any issues. Let's keep pur fingers crossed on more updates on this space.
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