Adam said:
Don't you EVER pull your head out of your butt and get some fresh air?
Microsoft has what's called a captive customer base meaning the vast
majority of customers remain not out of loyalty or choice, rather
because they don't wish to invest in replacement software that runs on
another platform.
IF another company develops an OS that runs Windows
software as well as Windows does Microsoft will be in serious trouble
overnight since a substantial number of Microsoft customers don't want
to be Microsoft customers and would jump ship in a heartbeat.
And if a pig had wings...
Unless MS does something unprecedented in the history of business, they will
control the computing arena forever. MS has 80,000 employees, revenues of
$51 billion, and a profit of $14 billion (27% of revenue). The company has
more CASH in the bank than the annual budget of California!
Consider the mainframe market. Stodgy IBM is still the leader. Competitors
have come and gone over the years: Xerox, CDC, Remington/Sperry, GE,
Honeywell, Univac, Burroughs, Telex, Calcomp, and lesser lights have tried
and failed. Sometimes miserably. CDC (together with the DOJ) sued IBM. The
case took THIRTEEN years to resolve (IBM had more lawyers on the case than
the DOJ had in the entire anti-trust division).
Last
week's disaster with marking valid copies of Vista as counterfeit was
just the latest misstep in a long history of Microsoft pissing off
their customers. Sooner or later the bubble is going to burst. When
that day happens we'll see idiots like you screaming your lungs out it
isn't fair I suppose.
There is no evidence that the MS "bubble" will burst. It is true that "all
things pass away," and I suppose Microsoft will disappear someday, but to
count on MS's demise anytime in the next century is more hope than reason.