Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st Jan 2007 18:06 UTC, submitted by danwarne
"Here's a little thought experiment to take into the New Year. Not as difficult as Schrodinger's Cat, but thought provoking nevertheless. Imagine that you woke up tomorrow to a world without Microsoft. Not a world where Microsoft never existed, but one where it hit some hidden critical corporate mass and imploded, or it was discovered that the Windows source code was actually the DNA sequence for red cabbage, and all the directors disappeared to a hidden undersea stronghold. Whatever really... Microsoft existed and now it doesn't."
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RE: Well, I'd still be working at DEC...
by CPUGuy on Mon 1st Jan 2007 18:50
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...and mainframes would be more prevalent and people would be using terminals or remote X stations.
Apple would still be a niche retailer selling to publishing firms, graphic artists, etc. BeOS would RULE THE DESKTOP MARKET (if one could call it that)!!!!
Seriously, without a cheap, ubiquitous OS driving a hardware market for personal PCs (and a good marketing machine)... I don't know that we would have them today, at least not in their current form.
You know, I wouldn't mind it either. Give me an old uVAX, X windows/motif and a bunch of mainframes to support. Sounds like a little slice of heaven to me.
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I DO think PCs would be here, but I am not sure what form they would take. Apple, IBM and other game console-like developing companies would continue to develop toward lower cost and more power, but I just don't see the masses coming to them to use them for day-to-day functions.
Edited 2007-01-01 18:24