Cloud IT formerly On-Site Technical Solutions: Sorry, This is Not the End of the PC Era

It's kind of amusing to see how much Mashable wanted to make everyone know that this is an opinion piece, and only the opinion of the author, mind you!!! Perhaps this is a minority, controversial voice at Mashable. Out here in the trenches, we don't think so.

Sorry, This is Not the End of the PC Era [OPINION]

After Hewlett-Packard’s announcement on Thursday that it planned to spin off its consumer PC unit, many were quick to pen obituaries for the PC epoch. The iPad, the thinking goes, has dealt the knockout blow to the personal computer, just as it turned 30.
No doubt there’s some truth in this. A portion of the market is heading toward a “post-PC” environment. But the masses still lag behind and probably will for some time. At the moment, the general market isn’t even close to being there. If anything, the end-of-an-era pronouncements say more about the tech blogosphere’s skewed perspective than anything else. But despite what pundits observe at cafes, Apple isn’t the dominant supplier of notebooks and a fairly small amount of the public — roughly 1% — has an iPad. HP’s exit from the market, meanwhile, actually signals that attempting to brand yourself mid-tier in the market is futile.

We've said a few times in this space that we're serving a hybrid market - most of our clients have one foot in the Cloud and one foot in their old network structures. We expect that to continue for at least the next couple of years. In the meantime, we're going to have plenty of businesses to serve that will be replacing their computers - yes, even desktops - with new ones. We still purchase many more desktops than any other devices for our customers.

Most of the devices that will be replacing the desktop or laptop are still relatively expensive for their benefits, especially for employees that stay in an office or plant. The easiest way to get them secure access to a Windows business network is still connecting a Windows computer to a Windows domain.

Even while we we're moving servers out of the office and into the Cloud, we're still connecting Windows computers to those Cloud servers. They may not be running Microsoft Office, but they tend to be running Windows XP or 7 (we never sold Vista!).

We encourage everyone to use their smart phones, tablets and Chromebooks, but they're not going to take over the world, not just yet.

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