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Five Ways Microsoft Could Change After Gates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-talk-about dept.

Might Squirrel noted a perfectly mediocre story to chat about on a boring post-holiday weekend Monday. This one is a look at 5 ways Microsoft could change after Gates. From accepting Open Source to serious interoperability work, there are definitely 5 things on that list there. Nothing about my solid gold rocket car.

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  1. my personal preference by jacquesm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Would be for microsoft to simply go away.

    Thanks Bill for all you've done, now donate some of those billions (bill & billions ;) ) to open source to remedy some of the damage.

    I realize without microsoft the PC would never be where it is today but I can't help but wonder where we'd be instead. Possibly some place much better.

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  2. Re:Don't expect any radical shift by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Which do you think your typical ISV will favor, an open, standardised platform with hundreds of millions of installs, multiple enterprise support vendors, and over a decade of maturity, or a brand new proprietary operating system with at best an emulation of a non-standard API with no formal definition and only one support vendor? How much market share does Linux has? 1.95% by the latest count. How much market share does various flavor of Windows has? More than 90% by the latest count. The number of copies of Windows sold each year through new PC sale alone probably outnumbers the entire install base for Linux, and that will be the case into the foreseeable future. Which do you think a typical ISV will target? Windows of course.