Thread: Microsoft to cut its Surface orders in half (2 millions units instead of 4 millions)
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Old 12-13-2012, 04:29 PM   #115
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
They use them, sure.
In what numbers, though?
All the Apple press data you find is all about corporate sales *growth* rate.
Big percentages quoted all over.
But finding out the base?
Ahem, no chest thumping there...

Best number I've found says Apple grew to 5.2% in 2011 from 3.3%.
http://prmac.com/release-id-17279.htm
Which merely brought them back to where they were in the 90's.

Mac isn't irrelevant, but they're as much of a threat to MS in the corporate market as Linux. They are just big enough to keep the trustbusters away without impacting revenue or revenue growth.

What does give MS nightmares about the corporate market is the return of mainframes under the guise of cloud computing. And their answer to that is Azure. Which is why they are dead set about keeping control of the client side of corporate computing and why Surface RT and Surface Pro are important.
Your view of OSX in the F500 world appears to be outdated. I can't share actual installation numbers of OSX-based computers within IBM (that information is IBM Confidential) but the number of OSX-based computers within IBM today is dramatically higher than it was 5 years ago. And in the service segments of the company, the inclusion of OSX-based computers in customer solutions is a healthy percentage of the successful contract engagements.
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