You are so right about that. They dont have any breakthrough technology anywhere, because they are Windows and not much else. but Office and Server are huge products for them If it weren't for sales of Office, Server and Windows, there would be no Microsoft. Exchange is still huge, but Google Apps for Business is eating away at that very fast. They are trying to break into devices, and grow them in a walled garden like Apple. The Xbox One, Surface and Windows Phone (Nokia-based) are being presented as connected devices related to each other. But the way they are connected, and the strategy behind connecting them together BY FORCE, raising prices and gouging the enterprise is a transparent money grab. Microsoft seems to be ignoring that they have SERIOUS competition, and that they have come way late for the party. After the toast has been made and glasses raised.
Yes, its cramped, and there is little room left at the table. Blackberry and Microsoft are sitting next to each other, but Blackberry has something new, whilst Microsoft has only updated something old.
I dont know what they should do really.
I dont socialize at all with my smartphone. I closed my Facebook account two years ago, never had a personal Twitter account, and dont want either of those liabilities. But without my smartphone, I would have to be in the office all the time. I can forward my office calls to my smartphone, answer emails, make video calls (even video conference calls), be present in team meetings via teleconferencing, watch webinars, and even connect to company workstations and servers via VPN to my office network. I can monitor the company video security system cameras, my home cameras, print copies of documents, scan barcoded asset tags, input data ibto databases....I could go on and on.
Smartphones are here to stay, but no longer is it a requirement to be running Windows to be productive in business. Apple has always been a niche product designed for consumers and artists with limited computer skills. Now devices like the iPad are commonplace in business meetings. Ultrabooks can outperform the last generation of serious desktop machines.
Where is Microsoft in all this?