Last July, Larry Dignan provided pointers as to Apple iPad in the enterprise market. Microsoft Today's earnings announcement was a mixed bag. Much attention will be focused on the soft PC and PC related sales and it is hard to avoid the fact that Microsoft disappointed more than expected. Even so, shipping 200 million Office licenses in 18 months is hardly shabby. The problem is that Microsoft doesn't get anything like the equivalent revenue Apple enjoys. Nor does it see the same margins when taking into account Apple's cut from third party AppStore sales. And when you see the master cash cow slip to number three status then there is something not quite right. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes asks the right questions about Microsoft's transition strategy. It's seeing the 30-year-old reign of the x86 'Wintel' architecture is coming to a close and it is preparing for this. One such step is in making Windows 8 run on the ARM architecture.