Salesforce CEO Benioff: Win 8 is ‘the end of Windows’
October 21, 2012
The official launch of Windows 8 is only a week away, but Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff won’t be making the upgrade, and he doesn’t think most enterprise CIOs will, either.
"Windows is irrelevant," Benioff said, speaking at a press Q&A session at Salesforce’s Cloudforce event in New York on Friday.
"The common phrase was, ‘the Windows 7 upgrade cycle,’" Benioff said. "You’re not going to hear about ‘the Windows 8 upgrade cycle.’ I think it’s the end of Windows."
According to the Salesforce CEO, Windows is no longer a critical part of the computing environment because PCs themselves are becoming obsolete. Instead, he said, customers are increasingly using smartphones and tablets as their primary computing devices, and that trend will only continue as the wireless networking technology improves…
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