The Way of Windows
A couple of Gartner Research analysts said recently what a lot of people have been thinking for a while: Microsoft Windows is in danger of losing relevance. Windows is still huge of course, and Linux still isn’t a big threat on the desktop (even though it’s free), and the Mac, as great as it is, still has a far smaller (but growing) market share. It really comes down to this: People are tired of the Windows way—the bugs, the flaky documentation, the need for proprietary code—and with the rise of legitimate, productive open source applications and the web browser as the platform, we have an alternative. The real question is how long it will take for the Enterprise market to make the shift and wean themselves from Redmond.