Windows Phone Live: An enterprise story “A cloud for everyone, on every device”, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella proclaimed recently, in a variation of the company’s new “mobile first, cloud first” mantra. In a nutshell this call to action explains why Microsoft bought Nokia’s devices and services division, but will its enterprise customers bite? Microsoft has, in …
You might not want it yet, but those that know the details do - WP already has an over 20% enterprise market share in the UK.
Fewer vulnerabilities than BB10 (zero versus about 40), an order of magnitude more secure than Android, integrates with the corporate Exchange and SharePoint stack out of the box, and cheap to manage via tools the vast majority of companies already have (SCCM)....
Get with it, Microsoft...Dated nomenclature! Burning platforms!
And the aptly named Azure - blue sky being the exact opposite of Cloud
Because in the long run, Cloud is the death of Microsoft because it is hard to be anti-competitive in the Cloud, so let's hope for Microsoft's sake, it turns out to be Azure all the way.
But hang on a minute, haven't they just discontinued the name "Azure"?
To always be the "me too" players in computing. Lemme guess - costs twice as much as the competition but does half as much, but since they target the usual fat cat brown-paper-bag-stuffed-with-cash decision makers, like councils etc, they have no need to worry about sales. Of whatever it is they are selling here.
"Lemme guess - costs twice as much as the competition but does half as much"
That's never been Microsoft's model. If you were someone that actually made these decisions then you would know that Microsoft are almost always the lowest TCO option. Particularly in the lucrative enterprise space.
And that's why MS keeps failing over and over again. "Mobile" in the sense of WP is a terrible concept of closing everything down and controlling the user, unlike in Windows Mobile . At least 5.
As for the cloud thing, well screw them and anyone trying to force people into giving them all files.
FFS stop talking bloody cloud this, cloud that. The general public don't understand cloud computing.
Talk to them in English, explaining what it actually means.
"Your music everywhere you are"
"No need to syncronise".
"All your browser favourites and contacts on all devices".
Talking about clouds being around you all the time makes it sound like you have a comedy rain cloud over your head like in some 1960s cartoon.
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