Microsoft must be ready to accept, as has Apple, that it's better to cannibalize its own sales than to let competitors do it.
From Computerworld:
From Computerworld:
"This is going to be a tough shift for Microsoft, to ask them to now accept that the world is a very different place than it used to be," said Al Gillen of research firm IDC.Microsoft must embrace 'grim option' of Windows cannibalization
That shift is the corporate reorganization unveiled last week to support a radical strategy of retreating from decades of selling packaged software and advancing on sustainable services and potentially-lucrative devices.