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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2006-09-07
This reads more like someone's pipe dream than a plausible happening.
Microsoft won't be around forever, but it's not going anywhere in the near future.
The author notes at the end of the article that the company that behaves most like Microsoft will essentially become the new Microsoft, which sounds like a mere changing of the guard.
Edited 2007-01-01 18:28