Gartner attacks Microsoft over Longhorn

24 May, 2004 at 5:21pm ET Article published in Tech

According to analysts Gartner although PC sales are booming at the moment as company’s replace ancient kit, that could all change in a couple of years. It predicts that sales will slow to a trickle because there will be no need for upgrades.

The growth of PCs will slow over the next two years because of a lack of a ‘killer ap’.

Source: TheInquirer

Comments

24 May 2004 ~ 5:58pm floppybootstomp Suits me. By the time Longhorn is released, most Linux distros will probably be so user-friendly that's where I'll be at and I suspect we'll see a major migration away from Microsoft.
24 May 2004 ~ 6:28pm pseudonym All I care about is where my games are going to be. Thats why I went to Win95 after all
25 May 2004 ~ 12:16pm RWB

pseudonym wrote:

All I care about is where my games are going to be. Thats why I went to Win95 after all

Yeah, if only linux had more support in the gaming industry it would rule over Windows.
25 May 2004 ~ 12:32pm Leonardo I'm really skeptical about 'no new killer apps' and the foretelling of stagnation, whether it be software or hardware. It's just too much like the predictions that we wouldn't need more than, what was it, 32MB of RAM in a home computer?