You can't deny mini-computers did LED on mainframes, then networked PCs did the same to minis and x86 Windows desktops LED-ed RISC Unix workstations into oblivion.
Free software and web applications look, indeed, a lot like a low-end disruptions into Microsoft's software business. Just because ESR predicts Microsoft's demise since ever, it doesn't mean it won't happen one day.
Still, I think Microsoft will become a very different company in the next five years.
Free software and web applications look, indeed, a lot like a low-end disruptions into Microsoft's software business. Just because ESR predicts Microsoft's demise since ever, it doesn't mean it won't happen one day.
Still, I think Microsoft will become a very different company in the next five years.