This is one of the drawbacks of the massive installed base of on-premise software.
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Installed base of tablets will soon top the installed base of all portable consoles.
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Compared to the worldwide total active installed base of 246 million, this was 41%.
At this point, however, one should not expect substantial growth in that installed base.
The latest figures from Gartner puts Microsoft near the bottom when it comes to installed base.
Lexmark will continue to provide service, support and aftermarket supplies for its inkjet installed base.
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But at currently above 2% of the installed base already, something clearly is happening.
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Also the EMR company should invest in an interface team that can support their installed base.
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There is little indication that the PlayBook has registered with consumers outside the loyal BlackBerry installed base.
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The consumer tablet installed base (160 M) is about to overtake the gaming-optimized handheld installed base (200 M).
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Few people question NDS from a technology standpoint, and its huge installed base is a matter of record.
Lexmark said it will continue to provide service, support and supplies for its installed base of inkjet printers.
Coupland thinks the installed base of about 80 million BlackBerry users will want to upgrade to BB10 devices.
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The company said the Xbox 360 installed base now totals 66 million consoles and 18 million Kinect sensors.
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Or to put it another way, more than double the Wii U's installed base since launching mid-holiday 2012.
To date, NFLX offers the greatest installed base, first-to-market advantage (although not necessarily an advantage in tech), and convenience.
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At the same time, the installed base of Symbian users will continue well after the last Symbian smartphone ships.
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Microsoft held its first cloud developers conference long ago, but seems hampered by having such a successful installed base.
Iomega now boasts an installed base of 13 million drives, many purchased at the same time as the computer itself.
App developers and content developers want the ability to treat the Apple ecosystem as one and address a huge installed base.
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In 2015, Forrester says, the market should reach 29.4 million units, with an installed base of close to 60 million units.
This is equally good news for developers, who build apps for these platforms, and directly benefit from their installed base growth.
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The company will continue to sell ink cartridges to its installed base.
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The total installed base for Android is 480 million devices, he said.
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NetApp has around one-third of its current installed base supporting virtualized infrastructure.
Attempts to squeeze even more revenue out of their installed base, while great for stockholders, will fuel moves away from the Microsoft monoculture.
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With that huge installed base of aging vehicles, the average car's 22.4 miles per gallon is just 1mpg better than a decade ago.
However, the installed base of solar thermal electricity generation uses twice the water as coal and five times the amount as gas-fired plants.
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For example, the U.S. has both the largest current installed base and market upside because of its unique, well-penetrated and large, affluent population.
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Nokia must subsidise game development for a year or two, as games are not profitable until there is a large installed base of users.
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