[goodcanadian]

Two thoughts come to mind:

1) If Microsoft is already/still at ~90%, is there really room for a big time come back? Getting the rest of the market is small potatoes compared to what they already have.

2) How much of the market does desktop represent, anyway? Most people I know do not own a desktop. They may have a laptop, but they may also only have a tablet and/or phone.

Now, I believe you are actually suggesting that Microsoft can leverage their desktop market to get back into tablets and phones, but I don't know . . . so far, their efforts have been disappointing, and frankly, people are used to their Android devices, so Microsoft will actually be the weird phone even if it is the normal desktop.

[pjmlp]

Here in Germany most consumer store chains have replaced hybrid Android tablets and netbooks with Windows 10 versions.

Many of those devices do allow for a SIM card as well.

[mistermann]

Eh? Are you saying they don't sell Android tablets anymore, but only Windows tablets?

[herbst]

Not sure what he said. But this is definitly not true. It is still a small minority of the devices that runs Windows

[pjmlp]

Then check online at Conrad, Saturn or Media Market, in Germany, what type of netbooks or hybrid tablets are being sold.

[coldtea]

Not sure what you mean. The topsellers here for example, the top-5 are all Android, and the rest mostly Android:

http://www.saturn.de/de/category/_tablets-252064.html?search...

[pjmlp]

Well, this is the 2nd most sold device right after Apple's iPad.

    TREKSTOR SurfTab duo W1 Volks-Tablet WiFi, Convertible mit 10.1 Zoll, 32 GB Speicher, 2 GB RAM, Windows 10, Schwarz

[pjmlp]

Check Media Market, Saturn, Conrad online stores for netbooks and hybrid tablets and see which ones are being sold.

[michaelmrose]

Desktop is synonymous with laptop/desktop machine in fact it is actually difficult to separate the two.

I think this is the case here.