The Relevance of Windows

Josh Fink writes "ZDNet has up an article exploring whether of not Windows is still relevant. In the age of 'Web 2.0' both older folks who remember the days before Windows and younger folks who have never known anything else are beginning to see Microsoft's offering as old news. From the article: 'Before closing the books on the Age of Windows, however, let's not get too caught up in the fashion of the moment. The water-cooler crowd may take a dim view of "Win-doze" for all the right reasons. Still, Microsoft's archrivals continue to view it as a product with a potentially make-or-break impact on their businesses. In fact, two of them--Adobe Systems and Symantec--are lobbying European regulators to get tough on Microsoft. The European Union already has an unresolved antitrust dispute with Microsoft, and Adobe and Symantec would be silly not to play that card for all it's worth. So this is what they're doing.'"

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Re:Is the Operating System Dead?

[Leadmagnet]

Oh please it's all over for Windows. MS is luck if they sell 200 million copies of Vista this next year, and at best they are looking a collecting service contracts on another 300 million copies of windows that don't get updated. Also I hear they only sold 1 million copies of Windows Basic edition this year in India. Just look how many new installs of Linux there will be over the next year. Also the newest version of office will probably only sell 100 Million copies in 2007 - compare that to OpenOffice. I don't see how Microsoft could possible stay in bussines with those numbers - they might as well turn off the lights and go home - broke.