This is not an easy question. My brother thinks that Windows is going to be fading fast while Android and Apple continue to grow. I think Windows will be around the office for the rest of our working lives.
In the meantime, mobile devices and their apps will become essential business machines. Microsoft is having a hard time getting market share with mobile devices. They will be attempting to put Windows 8 on Windows phones, with light versions of Office soon after. I am not excited about any phone apps that try to compete with Microsoft Office. I just downloaded an app that reads the documents.
AT&T and Verizon have the most phone choices. Sprint unlimited plans are more unlimited.
Here are some fault lines where earthquakes will appear. Intel/AMD processors in PCs use 10 times the energy of the Arm processors used in phones and tablets. Laptops need recharging after a couple of hours, smart phones may last all day, dumb cell phones a few days.
I have Windows 8 beta version on one of my computers. I had to retrain myself considerably to use it. I can do almost everything I can do with Windows 7, but some applications won’t install on it, most notably my Hewlett Packard scanner applications. For a mobile device, reviewers are being kind to Windows 8 as a way to access phone apps. For a desktop computer, I see no real advantage.
I also have a version of Linux on my Android phone. I had hopes that my phone would become my daily desktop. After a month fooling around with it, I have pretty much given up on it. The two major problems are that Bluetooth keyboard combinations like Ctrl-C don’t get through to it, and it cannot see anything coming from any device that wants to connect to it with a USB connection, like a flash key. The Arm processor is fast enough. The single gigabyte of high speed ram is more of a limitation.
There are tablets that have both Arm and Intel processors. They need to be charged often. Nobody likes them.
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