Delayed Windows 8 Could Hurt Microsoft's Sales In 2012

Microsoft, world’s largest software producer plans to change some of the key features of its new operating system Windows 8, as instead of buzz the product turned out to be one of company’s largest failures.   

The precipitous growth in smartphone sales has propelled Google's Android platform to become the world's largest computing platform across devices.  Android's incredibly fast rise to the top spot— the first Android phone was sold in October 2008— breaks Windows' decades-long stranglehold on computing systems.

One of the inevitable results of cost shifting (see the video below) is not just the compression of margins, but the rapid advancement of adoption by the masses. This rapid adoption causes users producers, and in the tech space - programmers and hardware OEMs to dump significant amounts of resources into the product in the race for revenue and proftis. The end result?

Trefis submits: Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) is expected to announce its fiscal year Q1 2012 earnings on June 16th. RIM has been an interesting story and in the last quarter, RIM’s stock has taken a beating.

Dell, the pioneering computer company that has struggled to match innovative mobile products from Apple, Google, and Samsung, is in talks to go private with help from prominent tech private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and software giant Microsoft, according to multiple reports. The deal, which would be valued at more than $20 billion, would be the largest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis, and would involve Microsoft kicking in as much as $3 billion.

Dell, the pioneering computer company that has struggled to match innovative mobile products from Apple, Google, and Samsung, is in talks to go private with help from prominent tech private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and software giant Microsoft, according to multiple reports. The deal, which would be valued at more than $20 billion, would be the largest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis, and would involve Microsoft kicking in as much as $3 billion.

By Trefis: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) may be a behemoth in the operating system and enterprise software space, but it is stumbling in the smartphone market, where it competes primarily with Google‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android and Apple‘s (NASDAQ:

Tablets had a strong first quarter, shipping 40.6 million units, according to Strategy Analytics. That's a 23% drop compared to the prior quarter, but it's an 143% increase over the same quarter in 2012.