The Future of Microsoft is Xbox But Not Windows
In the next decade, Xbox, Zune, Windows Phone will become Microsoft's core product, when Microsoft will be a combination of hardware and software development from a software company to a service provider. Ballmer recently published an interview with reporters that the company's strategic change views. In the interview, Ballmer talked about the boundaries between Tablet PC is becoming increasingly blurred, and hinted that the price of the upcoming Surface.
An epic year for Microsoft?
Its main product lines this year, Microsoft updates, including Window 8, Office, Windows Server and IE browser also includes a software update of the Xbox gaming platform.Cell Phones
Ballmer said in an interview with The New York Times: "You should believe that our core competency is software, you will find, however, we will be more and more like an equipment and service companies. Somewhat like our software will upgrading our equipment and the ability to cloud services this will be a different form of.... but that does not mean that all the equipment we will manufacture and partners, we will complete the hardware and hardware equipped with the software. We will at this point be a leader. "
The secrets of Surface price?
The latest Microsoft Surface tablet will have two versions, a Surface RT another Surface Pro. RT version Window RT operating system and ARM chips, while the Pro version will use the traditional X86 Intel processor and Window 8 operating system.Tablet PC
Pending in a county and the problem is the price of the product; analysts say the high-end versions of Microsoft's pricing will be up to $ 1,000.
Ballmer Asked Surface features and price, will win a fight with Apple's iPad, he does not have a direct answer, he just said it was assumed that no good cheap goods.
Ballmer said: "If you ask someone that you would use a 7-inch tablet, such as using the Kindle Fire do homework it? Most of the answer is no, because the tablet is not a good enough product. '
Ballmer said: "If you look at the PC market, you will find the 300-700 or 800, the price is more reasonable pricing range.
Surface RT version of the price will be $ 300 what? Pro version's price will be between 700-800 dollars it? It looks likely to be so.
Microsoft is moving away from the software?
Enterprise-class products like Windows, Office and Windows Server, SharePoint is Microsoft's cash cow, they constitute a major revenue Microsoft, Microsoft to abandon the software seems to be just a fantasy, but with the development of cloud services, which is not not possible today to 1 billion users and 20 million businesses in 76 countries worldwide, Microsoft has provided more than 200 online services.Laptop Screen
Of course, most of these are just ordinary PC, while rivals such as Google, have begun to use their services and advertising to drive, of course Microsoft has also been taken in this regard action. The latest Microsoft Office Web applications, we can already see that Microsoft is conscious, value-added services; they have paved the way for the Wizard of future service.
XBox and other
Microsoft launched its own production of Xbox hardware. In addition, they also launched their own PC (order) from its OEM partners. In fact, Ballmer has been to avoid and deny that they will produce all hardware products using their software. The Microsoft final strategy may image launched Nexus flagship product as, for hardware partners.
Windows 8 is closely related to the mobile device
Ballmer: Windows 8 launch, will become increasingly blurred boundaries between Tablet PC and PC, you will be difficult to say what a tablet is, what is a PC. "Cooler Pad
Microsoft, the software company to enter the hardware market to make sure that the hardware vendor dissatisfaction, at least, Acer has publicly declared complained that Microsoft introduced Surface tablet. Ballmer's statement from another angle, so read: continue manufacturing the traditional notebook backward practice, and those who cling to the old business model of the company will definitely be eliminated.
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