-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/2016 12:17 PM, Spencer wrote: > Hi, > >> >> Steve Kinney: Microsoft would lose a large part of its market >> share in the business and consumer markets >> > > I am confident that even after the collapse, businesses running 98 > and XP will still be paying for support q:
I know of a couple of small businesses still running core missions on Windows 98; in their use cases it "just works" and they see no need to fix it. There are still millions of XP installations grinding away out there. When a tool has successfully supported necessary business process for years, rational managers don't replace it until it either breaks or something comes along that offers a real improvement in the performance of the enterprise as a whole. Hence the key roles of forced obsolescence, managed security failure, and product misrepresentation in the wonderful world of proprietary software. > People, on the other hand, will be using the free and open-source > KanyeOS built on the BAE-Waynux system. Post-apocalypse, Free Software will dominate because of its superior performance in the context of salvaging and repurposing hardware, and because it already has a distributed architecture in place for developing and maintaining software. The more Free Software we have in our large scale integrated infrastructure today, the faster and better we can stand up a patchwork quilt of autonomous infrastructures tomorrow. :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXj+dpAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqMRAH/iEIut2RsA7vrJfRG9aU6fJw e5HTKnyc1IdlUOikugs0ifHLHm5CsWsBxwlsmDDsBwPR9j3f0iU7krtF85vkU2Bm WkhA9+rbmO9uzLoAqTJ1vzTwJEubDl3rWK4yk6KSSyqLZo79SIGE6bNKUIEAoGWQ 1kh4lvpHqYiP+ziJ5XTBQd735qdzVxqp1/HK4ji/Iex3cFfHhhBhsMkDQQF4rzFP +ljuV685MN+dwY6OIprR+BkS4FwyN9j1K71hJzgylIeXs1A5dAB4tdI9a4LCmmoa 8ojgLMtVJICbjiF8jwvPVWm52c+Tfj1sqtimiHE9DFPI51lgmcj7eC2DNsq7rGI= =CYQm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----