M$ is a Dropout at Robert Pogson

M$ is a Dropout

Published by Robert Pogson November 23rd, 2012 in technology. 5 Comments

IT has moved on and M$ has “dropped out”. They are the losers of the 21st century. Walmart is advertising tablets and naturally, if you select the lowest priced ones, you see nothing but Android/Linux on dozens of choices. Look as I might, there was not one running that other OS, not “8″, “7″ or not-Metro at any price…

“Operating

System Blackberry Tablet OS 1

Google Android 88

“

They should show

That Other OS 0,nada,zilch

see Tablet PCs : iPad & eReaders – Walmart.com.

The inevitable result is that M$’s share of IT, even on consumers’ PCs is declining rapidly. Moore’s Law, FLOSS and the world has moved on at a great pace no longer willing to be taxed, restricted and limited by M$.

- Robert Pogson

5 Responses to “M$ is a Dropout”

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1 kozmcrae Nov 23rd, 2012 at 10:46 am

They’re not here and I’m laughing at them.

Ha, ha, ha ha ha ha haaaaaaa!
2 ram Nov 23rd, 2012 at 10:43 pm

Never under estimate the power of bribery and kickbacks to influence government purchases however.
3 Kevin Lynch Nov 24th, 2012 at 3:34 pm

GCHQ in the UK is making moves to remove the security hurdles that stop FLOSS being used by government. The city of Munich has reportedly saved around €10 MILLION with it’s LiMux project. The US has switched it’s drones from Windows to Linux.

We’re in a recession. A very deep and long recession. Not even governments can afford to pay over the odds for buggy software that never gets properly fixed.
4 tomspom Nov 24th, 2012 at 6:18 pm

Well, M$ is finally dying after all these years. My life is wasted and so were netbooks, the escape route blocked by M$ lies, and now they are trying to block the escape routes of phones and tablets but are finally failing. I say good riddance to the egotistical moronic gates and balmer. I say a wasted 20 years of tech. I say behold the future. I just wish my own life were not wasted as such.
5 kozmcrae Nov 25th, 2012 at 10:22 am

tomspom wrote:

“I say a wasted 20 years of tech.”

You could say we were the sacrificial generation. We suffered under the Microsoft monopoly and fought it as best we could. Now the fog of their monopoly is beginning to lift.

I hope future generations will appreciate the freedom they will have but somehow I think the Microsoft years will just be a dim memory. The World will be in a hurry to forget about Microsoft.

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