by Surur
2 weeks
It turns out there are plusses and minuses to having a powerful updating system as is built into Windows 10. The plus is that it is easy to keep a large installed base of devices up to date. The negative is that bad updates can ...
by Surur
3 months
This month’s Netmarketshare numbers for August 2018 are out and they contain a mix of good and bad news for Microsoft. On the pleasant side, in August Windows 10 showed strong growth, growing from 36.58% to 37.8% of the desk...
by Surur
3 months
Lenovo is the number one PC OEM in Q2 2018, according to Gartner, pipping HP to the post, but remarkably the company did not do this by sacrificing profitability. In their quarterly earnings press release, posted today, the compan...
by Surur
4 months
Microsoft has become an increasingly enterprise-focused company, but part of the reason for this may be that it is mainly consumers who are moving away from Microsoft operating systems and services. Companies, always Microsoft&#...
by Surur
6 months
The prognosticators at analyst company the IDC do not currently see a bright future for traditional PCs and notebooks. In their Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, they predict the PC market will decline 1.8% o...
6 months
This year, users began to notice a change in Google’s design ethos for apps and services. No longer did the software maker stick to the same old tired Material Design system. Rather, it opted for a new style, it chose a new ...
by Surur
9 months
The IDC has posted their estimates for tablet shipments in Q4 2017, and on this occasion has focused strongly on the detachable tablet (e.g. iPad Pro, Surface Pro) vs slate market (regular iPad, most Android tablets). The former c...
by Surur
10 months
The IDC reports PC sales were better than expected in Q4 2017, with shipments actually growing 0.7% YoY instead of declining 1.7% as expected. A total of 70.6 million traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) were shi...
10 months
Microsoft's future plans with Cortana are unclear. As Alexa makes incurions into Windows 10 PCs, and Cortana fails to grab the smart-home and automotive market, its becoming uncertain what Microsoft wants their users to see Cortan...
by Surur
11 months
We have been watching Netmarketshare’s numbers closely over the last few months, waiting for the moment, long predicted, when Windows 10 will have more usage on the web than the now 8-year-old Windows 7. According to another...