The company, whose premium product was the Navigator web browser , saw its stock shoot up to $75 per share on the first day of trading, a near-record at the time for any stock’s opener.
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Comprising the intuitive, descriptive, and centralized graphical user interface, the Lepide Active Directory Management and Reporting software helps mitigating the time utilization for several Active Directory related tasks.
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Steve Ballmer has been at the head of Microsoft for over 10 years. During that time, Microsoft has grown a lot and added three new operating systems. Still it pales in comparison to the success of Apple, with Steve Jobs at the helm. But that could change soon.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, I’m sad to say is sick, not well. Hopefully his cancer can be eliminated, but that is an iffy statement. What will happen to Apple if Jobs passes away? That is a big question. But the answer is that for the short term, probably nothing. There are many projects under construction and Steve Jobs doesn’t manage them on a day to day basis anyway.
However, Steve Jobs has been the most innovative person in the computer world now for over 20 years. There is only one other person that has had as much influence on technology as Jobs, and that was Thomas Edison. Jobs not only helped create the PC industry, he helped turn around the Telephone Industry, the Internet Industry, the Graphics industry, the Music industry, and the video industry. His impact has been universal. And the truth of the matter is, Apple needs Steve Jobs, but Steve Jobs doesn’t need Apple. He’s just there, but he could be anywhere. And that is where Steve Ballmer comes in.
Steve Ballmer
Running one of the largest (monopoly’s) companies in the world is not easy. But Ballmer with the focus on business enterprise, not the consumer enterprise, runs a very different ship. His company has mastered many versions of software and continues to fine tune the biggest one, the operating system. In the case of Microsoft, the Ballmer-Microsoft relationship is one-to-one. Microsoft needs Ballmer and Ballmer needs Microsoft. Which is why Apple should be worried.
With Jobs’ time at Apple limited, Apple could be the subject to a buyout or takeover. Maybe not right away. But right now the only company in the horizon that could do that would be Microsoft.
Does Apple have a focus? Oddly enough one can make a claim that it does not. Sure the iPad, iPhone, and other products are successful; but Apple has been on a streak of winning the lotto with these products. Steve Jobs picks the numbers and he’s won more often than lost. But will his replacement be able to do that? I don’t know. Will Apple be able to produce more winning technologies going through the rest of this decade? I don’t know that either. But Microsoft will continue with it’s focus, which is to build up its domination of the Computer Tech world, and this would include getting Apple under its fold. This is why Apple should fear Steve Ballmer.
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Windows XP has been running strong for the last 10 years, but it finally looks like its age is beginning to show. Even though it is still the most used operating system on the planet today, it’s market share has finally dipped below the 50 percent last month according to the latest stats out courtesy of Net Applications.
It’s still incredible that Windows XP is still holding the number one spot worldwide, it’s survived the release of Windows Vista and now is still holding it’s own against Windows 7 for the time being. Windows 7 is still continuing to grow and holds just under 28 percent of the market at the moment. It overtook Windows Vista a long time ago which now has less than 10 percent of the market.
A couple of months ago some reports claimed that Windows 7 had overtaken Windows XP in the United States but Windows XP is still the reigning champion worldwide. However the rest of the world generally follows in the United States footprints so I’d expect Windows 7 to eventually overtake Windows XP, probably just before Windows 8 is released.
At the moment Microsoft and their Windows operating system controls around 87 percent of the overall OS market, that includes Apple’s Mac OS aswell as iOS and Android, Linux etc…
It’ll be interesting to see how long Windows XP will hold onto the top spot, it just refuses to die. Windows 7 has been on the market for about 22 months now and while it’s Microsoft’s fastest selling operating system it still has a long way to go before it claims the top spot for itself.
Anyone brave enough to place bets on when and if Windows 7 will overtake Windows XP?
Place them in the comments below
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Earlier this week, Microsoft officially RTM’d Mango (Check out Mike Halsey’s post) and is currently shipping the OS to manufacturers and carriers for testing purposes. It’s widely felt that Windows Phone Mango is set to drop sometime in September, but Windows Phone is just an OS, the other half of the equation is the actual handsets that the OS runs on. We’ve heard and seen leaks and rumors that manufactures are gearing up for a big fall release of devices for the new platform, but a report by DigiTimes is citing sources that a number of Windows Phone device manufacturers are preparing for a September launch to likely go head-to-head with Apple’s rumored iPhone 5.
So far, we have seen actual devices from Samsung, HTC, Acer, ZTE and Fujitsu-Toshiba. And we have seen renderings from LG for a device to drop sometime in 2011. This is likely to be the lineup to launch against the very popular rumored next-iPhone, with insiders noting that manufacturers are preparing “a number of Mango phones, powered by Qualcomm 1.5GHz single-core CPUs with display sizes ranging from 3.8- to 4.7-inch.”
Then there’s Nokia, the proposed savior of the OS. And for that matter, Windows Phone is considered to be the savior of Nokia. After months of shedding mobile market share, Nokia hopes to tie its future to Microsoft and its emerging product. Nokia might be dwindling down in the mobile market, but their mind share in other countries is still very strong. Microsoft hopes to capitalize on this presence by combining the Nokia hardware with the Windows Phone OS. Nokia has now committed to releasing a device in 2011, “at a time when fellow vendors have already heated up the market for Mango phones.”
The latest report by Nielsen shows that Microsoft commands a 9% piece of the smartphone market. This includes both Windows Mobile and the Windows Phone OS and based on the speed at which old Windows Mobile has been ceding market share, the numbers are likely an indicator that Windows Phone is slowly growing and starting to eat up some of those previous users.
So, it’s an exciting time to be following the mobile market and with heavy hitters like Microsoft and Apple set to duel in the Fall, it should be something to watch. We know that hoards of Apple users will be lining up to hand over their cash to get a new iPhone because, well, that’s what they do, but will the rest of the world look to a new and exciting smartphone platform for their next device. We’ll have to wait and see.
I’m curious. I use a Windows Phone with the current Mango beta and love it. If you are not a Windows Phone user, let me know in the comments what’s keeping you from trying Microsoft’s mobile reboot. Is it a dislike of the Metro UI, a feature that’s lacking, stuck in a current contract, or just don’t trust Microsoft when it comes to mobile. I’d love to hear your thought’s on Windows Phone and what may be keeping you away.
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