The Stupidity of Gartner Analysts
Sometimes the ignorance, idiocy and lies that come out of Gartner amaze me – as is the case this morning with the various news stories doing the rounds that Windows is “collapsing”.
Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald appeared at a Gartner sponsored conference in Las Vegas, and (among other claims), stated that…
- The Microsoft Windows ecosystem and customer situation is untenable
- The operating system itself is collapsing due to two decades of legacy code and decisions
- Windows will become irrelevant unless Microsoft does something about it
I’m guessing Gartner employs analysts who have no idea what is going on either with currently released Microsoft products, or those in development (and in the news) right now. Their sheer ignorance astounds me.
Silver and MacDonald go on to state
“Apple introduced its iPhone running OS X, but Microsoft requires a different product on handhelds because Windows Vista is too large, which makes application development, support and the user experience all more difficult,”
Flat out wrong! The version of OSX that runs on the iPhone is not the same as that which runs on desktop Macs.
The ignorance continues…
“We envision a very modular and virtualized world…. An OS, in this case Windows, will ride atop the hypervisor, but it will be much thinner, smaller and modular than it is today. Even the Win32 API set should be a module that can be deployed to maintain support for traditional Windows applications on some devices, but other[s] may not have that module installed.”
Have they no idea about the virtualisation software already released by Microsoft? (one of my colleagues has the installation media on his desk right now!)
Gartner have wound me up more and more in recent years – it would seem that commercial directors, managers and even the mainstream IT media take Gartner’s analyst opinions as fact, which is colossally stupid. Go have a read for yourself…
