Surealligator wrote:
In the next five years, Windows will be history. So, don't spend a fortune going to College to learn Microsoft Office Suit.
Five years eh LOL! Microsoft naysayers have been on this five year death prediction since Windows 95.
Kwanza when the first open source operating system kernel (Linux) was put online free for download and further development everyone was predicting the death of Microsoft especially because they had just bundled windows 95 with a free internet browser, effectively killing netscape...remember them?
Cloud computing does present a
slight threat to
some Microsoft products, remember Microsoft already does have some cloud computing products as well and an excellent virtualization platform that dwarfs the vmware alternative.
Remember they came from behind to claim the crown with gaming consoles...
Simply put Microsoft haiendi mahali in the next 100 years.
They simply have the best global software delivery, support and training system in the world.
90% plus software market share cannot be wiped out in five years mzee wangu ...copy cats or not.