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Originally Posted by John
...I think it will be a long time, if ever, before another company takes down MS...
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I have to disagree. MicroSoft's licensing fee's are killing them slowly. More and more people are realizing that OOS (Open Source Software) exists and are converting over little by little. Hell, look at FireFox! It takes up 33% of the internet browsers today. Last year it was just under 10%. FireFox is just the beginning of this revolution. People get curious and start exploring other OOS applications, and some even make over to the OSS operating systems like Linux. Everyone I know I have converted over to Linux (except for 3 people, which 1 of them converted to Mac OS X which is now based on *nix).
It also doesn't help MicroSoft that such OSes as Ubuntu & PCLinuxOS are becoming more and more popular among the "everyday person". To be honest, the only thing lacking in the *nix world is gaming support. I can no longer say *nix lacks hardware support because, frankly more and more hardware are working out-of-the-box, and those hardwares which do not are only a few steps away from working. Getting help online is fast and simple now as the Linux community is growing at an alarming rate too!
To be totally honest, I would not be surprised if Windows is 2nd place by the year 2020. Will Linux overtake MicroSoft? I sure hope so, but OS X is doing some surprising things as well. so who knows. All I know is MS is going down, and I'm going to love it when they do!
