Android vs Windows: Now the battle for the desktop really begins
In an alternate universe, last week's CES was overflowing with Windows RT devices (and probably featured a keynote by a new Microsoft chief executive).
Alas, for Microsoft at least, in this universe, at CES it was the year Android desktops began to gain momentum — shaping up to be the first genuine threat to Windows' dominance of the desktop.
PC sales have been in decline for a number of years thanks to the rise of tablets and smartphones, most of which run Android. Next year (maybe even this year) more tablets will ship than PCs (325 million versus 268 million, according to Gartner) and smartphones will continue to dwarf both — nearly two billion during 2014. And some 1.1 billion of those devices will be running Android, compared to 360 million Windows devices.
