Former Windows leader Steven Sinofsky put together a list of the ten big trends in tech he's expecting for 2014.
Sinofsky is one of the smartest people in tech. He's currently working a partner with venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, and as an executive in residence at Harvard Business School.
High quality, but ultra low-cost devices are going to explode in popularity
We've gotten a peek at this trend in the past few months. Motorola started selling a low cost Moto G for $179 unlocked. Just because it's cheap doesn't mean it's bad, either. Reviews are good.
Cloud-based productivity tools are going to be huge
Sinofsky ticks off a big list of web-based startups making tools for the enterprise that he thinks will see big growth: "Asana, Quip, Paper, Mixpanel, Lucidchart, Haikudeck or others will see viral expansion kick-in. Established tools such as Evernote, Box, Dropbox, WhatsApp, and more with high active usage will see major increases in cross-organization work as they grow to become essential tools for whole organizations."
Corporations will be less freaked out by the cloud
Enterprises will stop buying software to install in their own data centers and use the cloud. Not only that, they won't be worried about about sharing hardware in the cloud because they will get great benefits with that, particularly when it comes to sharing data among different companies.
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