News: Microsoft Could Be Obsolete By 2017

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I'm still not sure what exactly they thought was "broken" in Win7 x64? That has got to be the best Windows OS ever, hands down. Why couldn't they get it through their thick skulls to just take a product like Win7 and focus on making it faster, more efficient code, more stable, etc...why in the heck keep reinventing the wheel?
Stupid, stupid, shooting themselves in foot. Both feet, of sounds like. And for what gain???

Do you think Linux may be the wave of the future finally? They're always claiming "year of the Linux desktop" and it hasn't really happened yet. But it's finally got enough appeal to the average Joe (how easy can it be to install an Ubuntu live CD) at exactly the moment MS is having serious problems.

Just wonder how it will play out. The thing in MS' corner is Adobe - and about 25 years of proprietary business software (such as what my office runs) that needs Windows OS to run.