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Re:Does Microsoft need a turnaround expert? by 300bps on Thursday November 07, 2013 @09:33AM (#6689485)
The fact that computing is trending towards mobile and Microsoft's actions in this space have been a disaster

Computing consumption is trending toward mobile. Computing production will always likely be on notebook/desktop computers.

Regarding Microsoft's mobile offering - they've almost doubled their market share in the last 3 months in most countries including in the U.S. In Italy, they are ahead of iPhone.

http://i0.wp.com/allthingsd.com/files/2013/11/Kantar_smartph...

Many people (such as myself) owned a string of iPhones, then got fed up with the stagnation and either moved to Android or Windows Phone.

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Re:Does Microsoft need a turnaround expert? by thedrbrian on Thursday November 07, 2013 @10:25AM (#6689783)
What's interesting is the sales only count till the end of September and thus miss most of the 5s sales and that kantar handle Microsoft's online ad sales.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/11/05/apple-kantar-windows-...

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