Gartner attacks Microsoft over Longhorn

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited May 2004 in Science & 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

  • floppybootstompfloppybootstomp Greenwich New
    edited May 2004
    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.
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    All I care about is where my games are going to be. Thats why I went to Win95 after all :)
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    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.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    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?
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