Microsoft Bashing

[spihunter]

If M$ dissapeared right now, everything else would step in to take its place. They offer an OS and a office suite. We have tons of both on other platforms.

The difference would be that everyone would comply to open standards instead of "microsoft" standards.

And on a personal note, I would miss work that day because of the mass celebrations of computer geeks in the streets. :-D

[spihunter]

GadgetMaster wrote:

spihunter wrote:
If M$ dissapeared right now, everything else would step in to take its place. They offer an OS and a office suite. We have tons of both on other platforms.

The difference would be that everyone would comply to open standards instead of "microsoft" standards.

And on a personal note, I would miss work that day because of the mass celebrations of computer geeks in the streets. :-D

Hmm, I think the opposite would happen. Instead of everyone complying to standards I think every man and his dog would try to come up with their own "superior" format further fragmenting the indiustry and causing chaos.

Sure, the geeks would be dancing but what about all the lost work from all the MSOffice dependants. Some peoples livelihoods actually depend on MS software. Something we usually take for granted. Not the best position for an industry to be in. It would take years to re-stabilise and it would be very large gap to fill.

Yes, but all the MSOffice dependents might realize that maybe a monopoly like Microsoft is a bad idea after all.

You are right about someone coming up with a "superior" format, but we all know that just because a product is "superior" doent mean its going to win :-D

The open standards will take over for the first little while which could be enough to give them the advantage.