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RE[2]: Amusing, but naive
by orestes on Mon 14th Jan 2013 01:47
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RE[3]: Amusing, but naive
by cdude on Mon 14th Jan 2013 05:40
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RE[3]: Amusing, but naive
by r_a_trip on Mon 14th Jan 2013 09:36
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There wouldn't be much in the way of consequences. MS going out of business right now, would mean it's assets would be bought by another player and Windows/Office would continue to be made.
Maybe the sudden shock of seeing a computing behemoth falter and wither away would motivate the market to diversify and make software multiplatform and less susceptible to the cycles of whatever third party.
The doomsday scenario of MS going down and all MS software magically becoming non-executable simply won't happen.
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You say that like it's a bad thing... Microsoft's failure would be the world's gain.