DELL VS MICROSOFT

Dell vs Microsoft

Dell vs Microsoft

Dell vs Microsoft

Dell Computers has been connected at the hip with Microsoft since the beginning. Dell has traded millions upon millions of laptop and desktop computers boasting Microsoft Windows. Microsoft has gained gigantic market share thanks to Dell's hard-hitting charge and marketing to both consumers and business. Today, Dell tipped its hand a little and indicated that Microsoft might not be as big a part of its future.

In expertise you innovate or you die. Technological innovation requires large goods and speed-to-market. There actually aren't any mysteries in the techno-world; most expertise businesses are working on aligned tracks, often rushing to trounce each other to market with very alike products.  Apple innovates, Google innovates, Intel innovates but Microsoft is no longer innovating in its core business (operating systems) and they are about to start paying the price.

Dell will start proposing schemes featuring Google's Android OS and more significantly Google Chrome OS. This is a clear indicator that Dell is about to start adopting the "cloud". Google Chrome OS is an functioning scheme that was designed with "cloud computing" at its core. It's everything that Windows isn't light heaviness, Linux-based and open source. It carries x86 and ARM hardware architecture which means it will run on just about any apparatus currently produced that needs an OS. 

Google's delineation of cloud computing is, "all submissions will be world wide world wide web based... all web-based submissions will automatically work and new submissions can be in writing utilising your very popular world wide world wide web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the biggest user base of any platform".

This should be a major alert shot across the bow of Microsoft "Innovate or Die". Microsoft will obviously maintain a major occurrence at the cloud side (server-side) of the equation, but this will be a foremost assault on the individual desktop (client-side). Microsoft's business form is built round delivering OEM's with Windows and enterprises with server associated products. Will they be nimble enough to adapt? One thing is certain; the "cloud" is here to stay. The infrastructure is now in place to support it and end-users are currently embracing it.

Dell has enjoyed rapid development from its unassuming beginnings in a dorm room. Their achievement can be attributed to a highly ...