On 29 Oct 98, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> NT is
> already dead (thanks to Microsoft's inability to release a robust OS, let
> alone on time), and Linux is pounding the nails in the coffin.
Well, let's check back on this prediction in a couple of years. It's always
dangerous to count Microsoft out of anything, given its Lazarus-like
abilities to revive lame or moribund products through sheer dint of
marketing muscle, intimidation and/or general chicanery.
MSIE is a good example: in its first year or so of release, it was a pathetic
product, buggy and outdated -- but we know how that turned out. Once
the MS gloves came off it was Netscape whose back was quickly against
the wall...
Ditto Windows itself. There was a time not so long ago when its
ascendance was far from a sure thing: versions prior to 3.1 were just bad
jokes, bug-ridden and short on third-party applications -- and it was only
one of several competing GUI overlays for DOS at the time -- but again
MS bullied its way to the top. (I have old computer mags kicking around
here from 1988-89, and in any one I can find articles confidently
predicting the imminent demise of Windows 1.x-2.x-whatever. Didn't turn
out that way.)
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