THE reality behind Vista 7 increasingly becomes identical to that of Windows Vista (if not worse).
Analysts: 2010 will see surges in Windows 7 malware and application exploits
Sweden-based computer security firm Lavasoft predicts that trends in the creation and deployment of malware will change in 2010, toward newer models of cyber crime.
The release of Windows 7 will cause a large-scale shift in the production and distribution of malware, which overwhelmingly tends to target Microsoft products because of their widespread use. New versions of Windows require new versions of malware, to better target the incautious enterprise users that are the bread-and-butter victims of cyber criminals.
Microsoft Is Losing Fight for Consumers, Analyst Says
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“Except for gaming, it is ‘game over’ for Microsoft in the consumer market,” he said. “It’s time to declare Microsoft a loser in phones. Just get out of Dodge.”
Regardless of Microsoft’s performance, amid the rise of Apple’s iPhone and phones using Google’s Android software, it seems unlikely Microsoft will heed Mr. Anderson’s advice. The smartphone is becoming the innovative hub of software development and applications, far more so than the personal computer. If Microsoft loses in smartphones, Mr. Anderson noted, “It is pretty grim. Those applications are going to move upstream.”
The underlying problem, Mr. Anderson said, is cultural. “Phones are consumer items, and Microsoft doesn’t have consumer DNA,” he said.
“Walk the halls at Microsoft and you can see it is not a place that gets consumers,” Mr. Anderson said. “Just as if you walk the halls at Google, it’s obvious it is not a place that gets the enterprise world.”
--Microsoft, internal document [PDF]
Comments
your_friend
2009-12-11 23:02:06
Malware, which supposedly target's "popular" software will hit Windows 7 the same way it hit Vista, both of which have low to no market share. Who would have thought that the Microsoft press could spin malware into something to brag about? Yet here we see them using their security failure as a prediction of popularity.
The second quote is also amusingly self contradictory. Google, a multibillion dollar a year corporation with technical and organizational aptitude to tame the world wide web, does not "get" the enterprise market? That's rich.
More to the point, there are better explanations for Microsoft's failure in the "consumer" space. If anything at Microsoft is first rate it's their PR and marketing efforts. Technical problems, conflicting interests, new competition and fundamental market changes are not something the company can spend it's way out of. The Microsoft monopoly is toast, even in gaming, because there's just so much better stuff around.