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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 15 2012 @ 05:13 PM EST |
Microsoft's various operating systems require more expensive hardware, so
they aren't competitive. Since most of Microsoft's profits come from Office,
which only runs on Microsoft operating systems, each device sold running
IOS, Linux, OSX, Android, Solaris or whatever damages Microsoft far more
than the cost of a lost sale of Windows.
What's even more fun is that Intel is heavily reliant on Microsoft. I don't
know the precise percentage of Intel processors that run Windows, but it is
pretty high. If Microsoft does a crash and burn, Intel will too (Apple just
doesn't need that many chips, and some of us suspect that Apple is going
to dump Intel for ARM on the desktop).
Then there's NVidia and ATI/AMD. What happens to them if Microsoft
crashes?
The computer OEMs are probably in better shape. Most of them have
GNU-Linux and GNU-BSD projects. And customers have gotten used to
seeing competing operating systems in the market on phones and tablets,
so seeing a competing OS on a computer won't be a total shock, unlike ten
years ago.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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