{"id":7106,"date":"2013-01-23T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T09:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=7106"},"modified":"2013-01-23T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T10:00:03","slug":"what-happens-when-microsoft-has-lost-the-university-undergradutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/what-happens-when-microsoft-has-lost-the-university-undergradutes\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when Microsoft has lost the University undergradutes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll find out in about five to ten years by looking at their bottom line, but right now it&#8217;s not looking good for Microsoft. If the next generation of University graduates only really want Excel once a month for some heavy lifting of numbers, that&#8217;s not going to be enough.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I spend time at a few universities, including MIT and CU Boulder&#8230; I noticed a bunch of students with their email open during class \u2013 almost every one of them was using Gmail&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t focus on market share dynamics (I\u2019m sure there are teams of people at Microsoft and Google focused on this) but the anecdotal evidence I\u2019m seeing is powerful. And when The College switches to Google Apps because the students coming to The College are already well steeped in it and \u201cmay have never opened Microsoft Word\u201d, something really interesting is going on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll find out in about five to ten years by looking at their bottom line, but right now it&#8217;s not looking good for Microsoft. If the next generation of University graduates only really want Excel once a month for some heavy lifting of numbers, that&#8217;s not going to be enough. I spend time at a few universities, including MIT and CU Boulder&#8230; I noticed a bunch of students with their email open during class \u2013 almost every one of them was using Gmail&#8230; I don\u2019t focus on market share dynamics (I\u2019m sure there are teams of people at Microsoft and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[4050,132,4049,1419,4051],"class_list":["post-7106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","tag-generation-gap","tag-microsoft","tag-office","tag-shift","tag-university","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1QC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}