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voidmain:
Ignore everything on this page:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/SiliconInsider/SiliconInsider_021210.html

Except for the last coupla sections most notably section #7:

 
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6. Intel vs. AMD

Twenty years ago, I would have given this feud six months. And yet, largely due to the heroic tenacity of Jerry Sanders, little Advanced Micro Devices is still challenging mighty Intel for leadership of the microprocessor business.

Every couple years, AMD almost dies. And then just when you count it out, like now, the plucky firm comes roaring back and steals even more market share from Intel.

Lately, however, there have been some interesting changes. The great feuding kings, Grove and Sanders, are gone. Meanwhile, in the last two generations, largely because Intel has been distracted by too many side projects, AMD has managed to produce a better chip. And, thanks to the passage of time, the landmark "Intel Inside" marketing campaign has lost much of its punch: Owning an AMD Athlon-powered PC is no longer the stigma it once was.

   Winner: AMD. Intel will still dominate the industry (though its market share will fall by the year), while AMD will increasingly own the public's imagination.

7. Windows vs. Linux

Time is on Linux's side. Every Microsoft success is cause for a few more million customers to fear its hegemony. And every Microsoft failure reinforces competitors' belief that it can be taken down. Finally, Microsoft is on the losing side of the same game it played to defeat Apple: The big monolithic dinosaur that tries to control the landscape inevitably loses to the mob of tiny heterogeneous mammals that scurry about looking for any and every opportunity to survive.

Working against Microsoft, too, is the fact that it has not been able to successfully crush any computer operating system market except PCs

DJ:
good article (methinks    )

Dj

slave:

quote:  Winner: Linux. And that will mark the beginning of the slow end of Microsoft's dominance of the high-tech world.
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*in Mr. Burns voice*

Eeexcellent.

Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
While i do hope it will happen, 4 paragraphs don't cut it for me.

ALso rather than have MS DIE completely, i would like them to be around as a former shadow of itself, maybe make simple software like Office, which is good software you have to admit, its just the OS that bothers me.  I would run Office on Linux if i could,  while i have OpenOffice and i use Kword, they both are not as polished.

voidmain:
I have no problem using OpenOffice in place of Microcrap office, and neither does the rest of my family. Office is one of the *first* things that need to go because of proprietary file format lockin. You sound like you are still hooked on the Microsoft crack.

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