Microsoft proudly announces it is approaching 2 million beta testers (people who wish/hope to get a free copy of Win10 since they don't have an upgradable version sitting on their machine at all right now).
BTW, good luck with that, MS is already saying "unlicensed testers" stuff will automatically end on roll out day when Win10 checks for an upgradable version being previously present on the machine for the very first time.
MS also doesn't mention the ~50%~ drop rate from the program as it rolled along, it just proudly announces that nearly 2 million people had signed up. And it doesn't mention that over a quarter of the remaining testers are currently pretty disappointed in the latest design that shifts away from a standard desktop motif to more of a phone basis. It is obvious that MS is just doing whatever it is that MS wants to do, using the tester mass as a "given reason" for doing it.
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Comparison point -- Android is running at over a million and a half new devices activated PER DAY now. The entire historical mass of all the existing Windows stuff is only ~<10%~ of the current total devices market share and as that old stuff ages out and drops off MS had better be selling in their new devices in a very competitive manner.
So far Microsoft devices aren't even price point competing against the lower cost Chromebooks, much less against the ever growing sea of various Android devices.
Plus, as the new huge masses of Android devices roll into use, the MS pie slice will get smaller and smaller according because
MS isn't growing and Android certainly is growing, very very rapidly growing.
Now you see why all of a sudden MS Office suddenly showed up in the Android Play Store as local loaded Android software, it is because MS wants to exist in a couple of years and MS is realizing that Windows simply won't do that for them by itself as
the numbers simply aren't there by at least a factor of 10.
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Intel is still being pretty quiet lately ..... no news for for much of anything really lately. Intel Partners are still being asked to hold off on announcing any new boards or devices through August of this summer. Inference is that Skylake is coming (Broadwell is being skipped over as a thermal throttling nightmare) but this new Skylake will require a new style socket with new motherboard provisions for heat sinks, sensors and fans, etc. etc. etc. to try to step around its own thermal issues.
ARM has leaked their 11 core "phone through PC single chipset" concept now and Intel is having to redo Skylake yet again to try to have something to compete against that rather strong sounding system.
The dockable phone as your PC concept is a LARGE concern to Intel right now as that concept threatens their rice bowl as no other technological shift change has done so far .....
Intel's existing processors really don't fit into that sort of world at all and one can see their old mass of Intel PC processor stuff becoming moot really quite quickly once the phone/PCs start rolling out from China.
Docking stations for the phone by the big screen on your desk simply makes a lot of sense .....
As you watch Microsoft Office fleeing to the Google Play Store as local loaded software look to see a lot of the old names do likewise, or else they will flee to the net as net-based softwares that can run off any device, any OS.
Traditional Windows is sunsetting .... and the desktop PC era is ending fairly soon. This is clear to all players at this point in time.
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