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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by pessimizer on Thursday February 13, 2014 @09:35PM (#7236489)
A lot of businesses jumped from XP to 7. Maybe Microsoft has a chance to hold on to them if 9 isn't garbage. Scarily, I also see a possibility that business start jumping ship to Apple, Ubuntu and/or some Google ChromeOS offering on the desktop, and Active Directory, Exchange, and MSSQL servers the last remnants of Microsoft operating systems in the enterprise.

Granted, I think it's a slim chance, and I might be crazy.

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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by toyg on Thursday February 13, 2014 @09:47PM (#7236538)
Apple, yes (through BYO and the iPhone/iPad trojan horses). The rest, probably not. Any large business with an IT department worth its salt would steer well clear of "supportless" nonstandard oddities like ChromeOS.
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Re:After 15 months, Windows 8 has sold 100 million fewer cop... by pessimizer on Thursday February 13, 2014 @10:23PM (#7236681)
But a googleOS that just connects to google services, supplimented with a few apps? I could see that making headway in small businesses.
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