Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies

Hype Cycle 2014

As every year in august, the Technology Research branch of the Gartner Inc. publish his Hype Cycle For Emerging Technologies report.

Even without read the full report, from the graph we can see some interesting differences between the Hype Cycle of the last year and from the one of this year:

Hype Cycle 2013

In example the fast growth of the IoT from IT (innovation trigger) to the PIE (peak of inflated expectation) , or even the fast fall down of the Big Data from the PIE to the TD (trough of disillusionment). Is interesting also the growth from TD to the SE (slope of enlightenment) of technologies like 3D Printing and Virtual Reality, or the entry of the cryptocurrencies.

In my point of view something is too high and something else is too low in the graph, but substantially I agree with the researchers in the global view of what is the technologies future and the path to follow to monetize the progress of one or other of this technologies.

What do you think about this trending graph? Are you agree with Gartner?
 

Microsoft and PC are dead! But is this true?

Is PC, and therefore Microsoft, dead with no chance to be great again as every pseudo-expert over the internet (and not only) said in the last years?

Absolutely not, and not only in some single specialized market, but in every major market in our global IT ecosystem.

For let you understand my POV:
First: in the earliest months of 2014 there were a lot of studies that declare that PC is anything but dead, with much more profits and market share respect to console or to other computer platform (MacOs/Linux/Other). (I.E.: As Global PC Game Revenue Surpasses Consoles-Forbes , but it's only one of a long list, from both economist and gaming perspective).

Then this study from Gartner, which show us that Microsoft have not only an higher market share respect Apple, but will have also a bigger growth in the next years.

Pc and Microsoft are more alive then ever, and we can be sure they will be a major competitor in every IT challenge in the next years.

It is the Nadella's cure effect or it was the totally wrong previsions made in the past from some wannabe-famous author?

What do you think, Is PC( and Microsoft) dead?
Let me know in the comment.

PS: It's a long time since my last pure-techical post, and even more from my last Arduino post. I hope to begin to post again that stuff soon ;)