Windows Collapsing
According to two Gartner analysts, Windows operating system is collapsing and Microsoft must make radical changes to its operating system or risk becoming a has-been. It was pretty obvious to everyone who read about Vista or who used Vista. I have a quad core system with 3 Gig RAM and Vista is visibly slow in that.
Among Microsoft’s problems, the pair said, is Windows’ rapidly-expanding code base, which makes it virtually impossible to quickly craft a new version with meaningful changes. That was proved by Vista, they said, when Microsoft — frustrated by lack of progress during the five-year development effort on the new operating — hit the “reset” button and dropped back to the more stable code of Windows Server 2003 as the foundation of Vista (and still it sucks).
“Apple introduced its iPhone running OS X, but Microsoft requires a different product on handhelds because Windows Vista is too large, which makes application development, support and the user experience all more difficult,” according to Silver and MacDonald.
“Windows as we know it must be replaced,” they said in their presentation.
Microsoft is well aware of this problem and the competition. Otherwise, Why in the world would they extend support for Windows XP?
Source: ComputerWorld.
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