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Analysis: IT Consumerization and the Future of Work

arstechnica.com — "IT consumerization" is one of the more unwieldy buzzwords to come down the pike in some time, which is a shame, because there's definitely something to it. Here's a look at three factors that contribute to the IT consumerization trend, and at what this trend may mean for the future of how we work.

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  • standrewsgolfer, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0Another reason Macs are now more popular than ever.
  • smitas, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Cool
  • merlinus, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1This is great - one problem I see however is, the hardware stack grows in power but (e.g. ;) Windows continues to eat that up.

    If we could keep using Windows XP forever, then in a few years, almost everybody will have devices that are quad core or better that could easily run a VMware instance with a desktop image running Windows XP provided by your employer.

    (I leave out Linux and MacOS here, because Windows is still the "big dog" in the consumer world for now and so we must consider that the lowest common denominator.)

    But Microsoft's goals run counter to this. They want you to use Windows Vista (and then Windows 7?) and this will work against this BYOH concept because it will be that much harder to reach a saturation point of strong enough hardware to run such an OS on consumer laptops.
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