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Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing
spacefiddle writes "Computerworld has an article about a presentation from Gartner analysts in Las Vegas claiming that Windows is 'collapsing', and that Microsoft 'must make radical changes to the operating system or risk becoming a has-been.' Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald provided an analysis of what went wrong with Vista, and what they feel Microsoft can and must do to correct its problems. Larry Dignan of ZDNet has his own take, and while he agrees, he suggests that the downfall of Windows will be slow and drawn-out. As an interesting tangent to this, there's also a story from a few days prior about Ubuntu replacing Windows for a school's library kiosks, getting good performance out of older hardware. '[Network administrator Daniel] Stefyn said he was "pleasantly surprised" to discover that the Kubuntu desktops ran some applications faster with Linux than when they ran on Windows. An additional benefit of Windows' departure from student library terminals saw the students cease 'hacking the setup to install and play games or trash the operating system.'"
You mean the almost-constant nag screens? Are you sure you mean the almost-constant nag screens?
Forget netcraft.
It is official. Gartner now confirms: Windows is collapsing.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Windows community
when Gartner confirmed that Windows is collapsing in complete disarray and
risks becoming a has-been. Coming on the heels of a recent survey which
plainly states that by the end of 2007 only 6.3 percent of the 50,000
enterprise computer users it surveyed were working with Vista.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Windows' future. The
hand writing is on the wall: Windows faces a bleak future. In fact there
won't be any future at all for Windows because Windows is collapsing.
Things are looking very bad for Windows. As many of us are already aware,
Windows continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of
blood.
Fact: Windows is collapsing
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Creating a lean palm version would be a million miles away.
Hardly. They could just do this on their source code to make it smaller
s/.*linux is the devil.*\n//gi
That should drop about 50% of their code size
ZERO ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ONE! Just brushing up for my next big invention: Ethernet over Voice (EoV)
Nah.
Windows will die like a big ole dinosaur, and its death throes are gonna mess up its local ecosystem real bad.
Stay well clear of that tail. There's no mind controlling it any more.
And... well... there's no pleasant way to say this, but it needs to be said. So WARNING: NEXT PARAGRAPH MAY EVOKE UGLY GRAPHIC IMAGERY!
When a dinosaur dies like Windows is dying, it not only thrashes around a lot, but all its sphincter muscles relax and contents of its bowels and bladder spew forth, driven by the pressures of the terminal seizure. You want to be on high ground and up wind when that happens.
Of course not. Gartner is a think tank for hire, their bread and butter is outlandish predictions. The only news here is that Gartner is predicting bad things for Microsoft. Was Microsoft late on their payments?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
I think you misspelled "DRM".
Every expression is true, for a given value of 'true'
Thank God for evolution.
Dear god! If you are going to lie at least make it somewhat within the boundaries of reality. The processor you have in your machine was released by Intel in August 2002, yet you claim to have in a EIGHT YEAR OLD computer. I am sure that Intel would love to find out how you got a machine with a processor from 2 years in to the future. That has to be some amazing feat to reach across the barriers of time to grab yourself a hot new processor. Does Stephen Hawking regularly show up at your house to see what other amazing feats you can accomplish?
Programming: Its not just a job - its an indenture.
See spun, as a 4 digit, you got the joke.
As a 5 digit, Sancho just can't understand the humor because he hasn't been around long enough.
As a 6 digit, I have no clue what both of you are even talking about and I'm surprised at myself for being cheeky enough to post at all.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I went and installed Windowblinds and a Vista skin on our XP machines. Now users think we have Vista for all intents and purposes, and I get to support XP. It's win-win!