neosmart.net — NeoSmart Technologies has conducted a highly objective and an in-depth research project, and have published their findings in the form of just two reasons that explain everything about why Microsoft's Windows line is doing as badly as it is - and, as somewhat of a rarity, offer a detailed a solution as well.
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atomicpoetJun 18, 2006
This is entirely rhetoric. At 95% of the desktop market, can you really call Windows dead? Not likely. A computer platform is dead when it becomes obsolete, is no longer maintained, and is no longer attracting a userbase. The Commodore 64 is dead. GEOS is dead. As is DR-DOS. Windows is not dead./uses Slackware
mqudsiJun 18, 2006
Keyword (IMO): "Dying" *not* "Dead"
rpehrsonFeb 2, 2008
The commentary on what needs to be done is excellent - i.e. stop supporting hardware that won't support Vista anyway, build in SSE2, optimize the core, and don't look back to anything pre-Windows 2000 era. Ship add-on utilities to do emulation of DOS and Windows 9x in Virtual Machines, and divest all that old-a** code. Stop the bloat!!!