{"id":38720,"date":"2012-10-29T17:19:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=38720"},"modified":"2012-10-29T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T17:19:57","slug":"microsoft-in-decline-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/microsoft-in-decline-think-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft in Decline? Think Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ballmer1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ballmer\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38729\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Microsoft in Decline? Think Again<\/h3>\n<p>By John Dodge for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterprisecioforum.com\/en\/blogs\/jdodge\" target=\"_blank\">Enterprise CIO Forum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to a survey of 100 IT managers, 48% of whom said they plan to standardize on Microsoft OSes &#8212; Windows Phone 7.5 and 8 and Windows RT tablet &#8212; for their mobile platform. The survey was written up in an IDG News Service story and was conducted by ThinkEquity, a finance and research concern. 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