The Fall of Windows: From Something to Nothing
Yesterday: analytics.usa.gov Says Less Than 14% of Web Requests (to Government Sites) Come From Vista 11 (after 4+ years since its release)
In the sister site today:
- The Fall of Windows: 3.1 and 3.11
- Apple and IBM had alternatives
- The Fall of Windows: 95
- After Microsoft had weakened IBM (by cheating) it was trying to acquire a market monopoly in operating systems
- The Fall of Windows: 98
- Windows 98 was not particularly special in any way
- The Fall of Windows: ME and 2000
- It was time for Microsoft to pull off some more dirty tricks, including bribery, FUD campaigns, and entryism
- The Fall of Windows: XP
- XP rode the inertia of prior versions of Windows
- The Fall of Windows: Vista
- Vista flopped, so Microsoft needed to focus on attacking the counterpart
- The Fall of Windows: Vista 7 and 8
- Microsoft kept comparing "7" to its predecessor to make it look like the "lesser pig"
- The Fall of Windows: Vista 10 and 11
- Windows is rotting to death
It is difficult to believe and foolish to assert that the future of computing is Windows or anything from Microsoft. Seeing the never-ending waves of layoffs at Microsoft - including facepalm-worthy bugs in Windows (the joke is, Microsoft laid off the QA in Windows) - it seems like we observe the final few years of Windows as a dominant market force. In recent months Microsoft has had about 3 waves of layoffs per month as whole units bleed and debt skyrockets.
Of course Microsoft will pretend everything is fine and "just trust the hey hi" (AI). █