ZDNet is such tripe. Every week they publish some new article "death of this or that!!" (I'm looking at you, Ed Bott and SJVN!) it's just loud-mouthed commentary and opinion pieces to bring in advertising dollars and drum up arguments from the same bunch of commenting jackasses, not real tech news. I'll normally pass on reading anything there, although if Big Dave is commenting it might be worth a look...
I would agree that ZDNet is utter balls most of the time. After all this is the same site that sent someone to do that awful interview with Barry Altman, that was more like a marketing advert than a interview. However, only once in a blue moon, a writer has a moment of clarity and realises they can actually write. But they are that rare I can't think of one off the top of my head.
As for the death of Windows...
Come on you guys seriously think Microsoft will let it die? Yes Windows 8 is a bit of a joke. But having lived with it for a while I can say it's not the worst OS I have ever used. I think ME still holds that honour, closely followed by COS. There are just too many bugs and inconsistencies in it. Like the patchy support for my USB network dongle. Apart from that, once I got past the jarring learning curve, it was a doddle to use. But saying that I do own the pro version and had access to the desktop and such.
