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Windows: Not Doomed Yet
Nerval's Lobster writes "Earlier this week, ZDNet columnist Steven Vaughan-Nichols wrote an article, 'Windows: It's over,' that sparked a lot of passionate online debate. His thesis was simple: Microsoft's dominance of the computing market is coming to an end, accelerated by the incipient failure of Windows 8. Make no mistake about it: there's no way to fudge the numbers in a way that suggests Windows 8 is proving a blockbuster. But maybe it's not doomsday for Windows or Microsoft. After all, the company still has a lot of really smart developers and engineers, a whole ton of cash, and the ability to let its projects play out over years. So here's the question, Slashdotters: Is Windows really doomed? And, if not, what can be done to turn things around? (No originality points awarded for a 'Fire Steve Ballmer' response.)"
So it will never die. GNU/Linux just doesn't cut it and you can't run OSX if you don't buy Apple hardware. It's been like 20 years since the first Linux release and still we're having problems with sound cards, wireless networking and bluetooth adapters crashing down the whole system. Until somebody steps up and writes a stable-API OS alternative for the common PC, Windows will never die. It might lose some sales due to the nature of computers being sold (i.e. more people use tablets because they didn't need a desktop in the first place), but as long as desktop/laptop computers are being produced, I don't see how it can die.