Comments on: post 1: Defining where Microsoft has significant market share http://whatwillweuse.com/2009/06/30/post-1-defining-where-microsoft-has-significant-market-share/ Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:37:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: A year from today Microsoft will lack a majority market share. – What Will We Use on June 30, 2011? http://whatwillweuse.com/2009/06/30/post-1-defining-where-microsoft-has-significant-market-share/comment-page-1/#comment-5416 A year from today Microsoft will lack a majority market share. – What Will We Use on June 30, 2011? Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:42:02 +0000 http://whatwillweuse.com/?p=131#comment-5416 [...] I defined where Microsoft claimed to have a majority market share.Then Nick and I agreed to watch w3counter's [...] [...] I defined where Microsoft claimed to have a majority market share.Then Nick and I agreed to watch w3counter's [...]

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]]> By: bethlynn http://whatwillweuse.com/2009/06/30/post-1-defining-where-microsoft-has-significant-market-share/comment-page-1/#comment-470 bethlynn Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:12:25 +0000 http://whatwillweuse.com/?p=131#comment-470 The categories worth watching were reformatted for clarity on 7/22/09 A. Desktops/Laptops, tracked with http://www.w3counter.com B. Browsers, tracked with http://www.w3counter.com C. Office Suites 90% (Google Docs counts. I’m not sure if I should count absence from an Office Suite in the market share breakdown), counting suggestions needed D. Servers 30% – defined as a COTS machine providing a service such as www, email, databases, file share, etc. Voip is a different animal and will be tracked seperately, clarity requested by [info]beeporama, counting suggestions needed E. Video Game Consoles 10% – defined has must hookup to a television or other monitor, clarity requested by [info]beeporama, counting suggestions needed F. Mobile Phone 5% (the words Blackberry and iPhone are competing to be the Kleenex in the smartphone market. I see Microsoft not as relevant, but fxchip asked so I’m tracking it. Any non Microsoft branded phone counts), counting suggestions needed The categories worth watching were reformatted for clarity on 7/22/09

A. Desktops/Laptops, tracked with http://www.w3counter.com

B. Browsers, tracked with http://www.w3counter.com

C. Office Suites 90% (Google Docs counts. I’m not sure if I should count absence from an Office Suite in the market share breakdown), counting suggestions needed

D. Servers 30% – defined as a COTS machine providing a service such as www, email, databases, file share, etc. Voip is a different animal and will be tracked seperately, clarity requested by [info]beeporama, counting suggestions needed

E. Video Game Consoles 10% – defined has must hookup to a television or other monitor, clarity requested by
[info]beeporama, counting suggestions needed

F. Mobile Phone 5% (the words Blackberry and iPhone are competing to be the Kleenex in the smartphone market. I see Microsoft not as relevant, but fxchip asked so I’m tracking it. Any non Microsoft branded phone counts), counting suggestions needed

]]> By: beeporama http://whatwillweuse.com/2009/06/30/post-1-defining-where-microsoft-has-significant-market-share/comment-page-1/#comment-444 beeporama Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:49:35 +0000 http://whatwillweuse.com/?p=131#comment-444 <p>Do you want to break RDBMS's out from servers, comparing SQL Server to Oracle to MySQL to etc? Of course that opens a whole can of worms: do you break out mail servers, too? Web servers?</p> <p>Does "video game consoles" include handhelds (DS, PSP), a space in which they do not compete; or full consoles? Then you have to ask yourself if you are counting current consoles (for which they can still make money on the license fees for games) or also legacy consoles. I think it gets really tricky to count these, especially since the cycle of planned obsolescence is so rapid (by all competitors) and the business model is so bizarre (the hardware is usually sold at a loss, making attach rates vital from a business perspective).</p> <p>Of course this all comes down to my view that Microsoft isn't striving for "world domination" or even "majority market share" so much as "increased shareholder value," and they just happen to see majority market share as a waypost. Like most companies. I suspect they'd take a 49% market share and high profit over a 51% market share at less profit.</p> <p>Good luck with this either way; getting good counts is going to be hard work.</p> Do you want to break RDBMS’s out from servers, comparing SQL Server to Oracle to MySQL to etc? Of course that opens a whole can of worms: do you break out mail servers, too? Web servers?

Does “video game consoles” include handhelds (DS, PSP), a space in which they do not compete; or full consoles? Then you have to ask yourself if you are counting current consoles (for which they can still make money on the license fees for games) or also legacy consoles. I think it gets really tricky to count these, especially since the cycle of planned obsolescence is so rapid (by all competitors) and the business model is so bizarre (the hardware is usually sold at a loss, making attach rates vital from a business perspective).

Of course this all comes down to my view that Microsoft isn’t striving for “world domination” or even “majority market share” so much as “increased shareholder value,” and they just happen to see majority market share as a waypost. Like most companies. I suspect they’d take a 49% market share and high profit over a 51% market share at less profit.

Good luck with this either way; getting good counts is going to be hard work.

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