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| Authored by: tiger99 on Monday, December 10 2012 @ 08:21 PM EST |
| What a positive attitude. M$ gone in only two years! Well, maybe, if the
authorities around the world finally close in on them for tax evasion, plus a
fine by the EU for 10% of their worldwide turnover, plus losing a few patent
trials.... I was impressed by the speed at which the Berlin Wall came down,
triggered by one small event, and many years of pent-up frustration and anger.
And, we all saw how quickly GM went bankrupt. Such big events can and do
happen.... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: celtic_hackr on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 10:38 AM EST |
Let me assure you MS and Apple are quite safe from your pitiful army of
Opensourcers young Skywalker, on their fully operational Patented DeathStar.
All joking aside, let me inject a bit of reality. Neither Microsoft nor Apple
are going to be going out of business anytime soon.
A) Apple's fan base is too devoted to them, and their products still sell very
well, and they are sitting on buckets of money. Apple has a very loyal artistic
community following too, and it is widely used for the Graphic Arts. Which it
will continue to do for some time.
B) Windows, has too large of a corporate footprint to be going anywhere anytime
soon.
So, a prophecy of an Extinct MS in two years is just silly, silly, silly.
I get tired of FOSS fanatics predicting the end MS in 2, 5, 10 years. The world
is changing, and Linux has conquered large parts of the tech world. iOS and
Android are conquering the future tech trend. Apple of course is repeating it's
historical mistake, and adding new ones, and will likely wind up with a much
smaller share than it has now. I don't see it totally failing though.
I look on longer timescales. I've used Linux since the early days, with my first
kernel of 2.0.20 under Slackware 96. A Linux version capable of running X in 8MB
of memory. Look where FOSS has come in those 15 years. Linux now owns the top
500 list. Powers most of the web. Is the engine under the vast majority of
modern phones, and is set to conquer the tablet world. Yes other things have
been loaded on top of the Linux engine. I see more of that in the future.
Windows future is limited, but it will be decades more before it is gone. For
proof, I submit that I still have clients that need COBOL. COBOL is dead. Long
live COBOL.
Windows is dieing. Long live Windows.
See the parallel? MS is now where the COBOL shops were back in the day. COBOL is
still out there, and there are still people making money on it. I'm one. I also
write C in all it's variants, numerous obscure languages, HTML5 and, yes,
Android apps.
Is it possible that MS will fold in 2 years? Sure. In 10? sure? Probable? No.
Plausible, but very much against all odds.
I'm no MS fan, but I am more of a realist than these comments paint the 2-10
EOLifers here. Which is saying something, as I've never been accused of being
much of a realist in relation to Linux and FOSS. Which should tell you how far
out in Neverland you've wandered. ;)
I should know because I AM Pan! ;')[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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