infoworld.com — "Did you ever hear the warning, “be careful what you wish for, it might come true?” Well, because Microsoft is the company most people love to hate, I decided to ask a cross section of industry cognoscenti this simple question: What would happen if Microsoft and all of its technology disappeared tomorrow?"
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jav1231May 24, 2006
Geterix: "It is beyond sad that grown men have so much hate for a company for no honest reason"Hmmm...calling up the CEO's of upstarts and strong-arming them into abandoning their product or else, so you don't have to compete with them...seems like a pretty-good reason to me.
o0joshua0oMay 24, 2006
Would this mean my Xbox would vanish too? (shudders)
mecki78May 24, 2006
I can tell you what happens: We, as a Mac only company (with some Linux servers, but all workplaces using Macs) would work as every day. And we, as a Mac software seller/reseller and developer would make a new sales record in a single day. Please make it happen! :-D
ajakeMay 25, 2006
Is that any better? Apple as a firm can be even bigger assh**e, even now when they are just a small pimple in os market and to keep this post factual, mac users are even more ugly too!
jcmeadMay 25, 2006
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mrviklundMay 25, 2006
Well, it's right that it would be chaos if Microsoft suddenly disappeared but the thing here is that Microsoft exist today and everything else that exist, exist around and have evolved around Microsoft's products. If Microsoft never had been invented, the world would have been looming very different. I mean. If Microsoft just disappeared would be like the bridge you just standing on disappeared, so I think it's a bit unfair to say like that. But, this relay shows how much we depend on Microsoft and what the effect would be if the suddenly just disappeared. This is why Windows have such a Hugh problems with Viruses... We relay should tray to spread things out over different systems and platforms to make Internet, computers and our whole environment more robust.