“I don’t think Microsoft will ship another Operating System after Vista launches. I believe that a combination of technical difficulties and changing markets will prevent it from creating a product that is relevant in the market. Consider this, if the latest shipping dates are to be believed, it will have taken Microsoft over six years to get Windows Vista out the door and to its consumers. And based on past events, it is safe to assume that Vista will require at least one service pack before it is truly ready for use. Of course, factoring in the normal Microsoft delays for producing patches, such a comprehensive service pack will probably take another year before it can be released to users. That would mean that it will have taken Microsoft 7+ years to make a usable operating system,” James R. Stoup writes for Apple Matters. “Now consider how long it could take Microsoft to produce Vista’s successor.”
“With Google threatening to release a web-based OS, and Apple potentially using virtualization to run all Windows applications, Microsoft might find that by the time it can cobble something together, it no longer has a market interested in its product,” Stoup writes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Not as far-fetched as some might believe.
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This sounds just as naive as the speculation that Apple will quit work on future Mac OS.
We should be so lucky…
Yes Spark, but this is inline with MDN ethos.
“Windows Vista to be Microsoft’s last operating system?”
Well, one can only hope. But then, I also hope that “Miracle” is Celine Dion’s last album, but that doesn’t mean the bitch won’t keep caterwauling away just to spite me.
“I haven’t heard caterwauling like that since Jolson.” – Montgomery Burns, or at least that’s the way I remember the quote. Apologies to Simpsons nerds if I messed it up.
he’s right on. Microsoft probably won’t produce another OS but they will always be around… look a General Electric, they started off doing one thing and now they are doing a completely different thing. businesses with that much cash don’t fold under competition … they just find new ways of making money. Its ok Microsoft if you want to get out of the computer business you’re probably better sutied to be making cute toys anyway!
I’ve been speculating this for months. I think that Microsoft will need to perform a major house cleaning, a la Job’s return to Apple (focus on core assets).
They could do it, but asswipes like Ballmer would have to go. And no more vaporware.
And hey, don’t be offended because I called Celine Dion a bitch.
I didn’t mean to imply that she was mean or unpleasant, I meant “bitch” as in that’s what you call a female dog.
Hey hey, no deleting my posts.
I just wanted to apologize if I offended anyone unintentionally by calling Celine Dion a bitch.
I meant “bitch” in its other definition – a female dog.
I keed, I keed. Not.
“I didn’t mean to imply that she was mean or unpleasant, I meant “bitch” as in that’s what you call a female dog.”
That’s probably why you shouldn’t use the word that way in public discourse. Just a suggestion. Otherwise I enjoyed your post.
Stupid site, first posts disappear, then they reapper. The server thinks it’s Sigreid & Roy.
Bah. The second one was better anyway.
Microsoft will never die. Even if Vista is the final Microsoft OS and Office is given a merciful death — it became bloated long ago — I am sure that Microsoft has its hands in enough other ventures that it will always have money in the bank.
25 years from now, Microsoft may be the world’s largest textile manufacturer. At least that will give us all a use for the latest patches. :~)
Hey, thanks Sparky.
But seriously, it’s MDN – there’s no standards here, right?
At least I didn’t bring up politics.
blucaso: maybe next time you should use bee-otch” instead.
Stupid article. The only reason Vista is so late is because they’re trying to ensure backward compatibility going back to DOS and Windows 3.1 applications…
They won’t make that mistake next time. I expect M$ to put “legacy” Windows apps in a sandbox, to run within whatever new OS they decided on, like Apple did with Classic when it launched OS X.
This isn’t the end of M$ as an OS vendor though… dumb dumb dumb article.
blucaso,
Celine Dion is a very prominent Lesbian. Calling her a ‘Bitch’ instead of a ‘Butch’ will get the Lesbian Mafia on your ass.
Get your vowels right man.
Microsoft won’t get Vista out the door until sometime in 2008 (no way are they going to get that piece of crap fixed up in time for an ’07 release) and it’s going to be so slow and lackluster nobody is going to care. I don’t think they’ll stop development on their OS though, not until Bill & Steve breathe their last breaths.
Windows, like Celine Dion, Korn and dozen of others terrible “products” will live on and on and on, possibly forever, becuase there will never be a shortage of goofballs that line up to buy that stuff.
Heck, I don’t even want Windows to go away. Think about it. Do we really want millions of mouth-breathing, “These Colors Don’t Run” bumper-stickerin’, Windows 98 usin’ hicks crowding OUR Apple stores?
S
Why put out another OS for 7+ years when you can milk your user base for the same crap for 7+ years and spend nothing but the initial development cost. Sit back and ride that cash cow.
Innovate? Leave that to Apple and others… that is NOT the MS way! And when others innovations are too difficult to copy, just sit and milk your user base…. file for a bunch of patents that sound good at the time… let someone else actually MAKE the technology you patented… then sue them to keep your business alive. That is the new MS way! Many others are getting by one it… why should MS invent a new way to scam… they copy computer innovation… why not copy other people scam innovation too?
The Dude abides.
25 years from now . . . . .
Microsoft already is the largest textile manufacturer they’ve perfected that patch and they create them often
what this article is saying is that the market is rype for Apple to offer OSX to PC vendors.
shudder the possibilities…
Dumb story of the day award?
It’s time to start using the word “beleaguered” when referring to Microsoft.
But if this story was about Apple, this guy and his story would be as idiotic as MDN’s mentality. But since this story is about Microsoft then it isn’t that far-fetched.
Please God let it be True
I would prefer keeping Microsoft dominance with Windows running a larger market share if it keeps viruses and security threats off OSX….