Microsoft
Displacing entrenched technology
Successful technology — and I’m using the term broadly here, not just limiting myself to digital tech — has a propensity to entrench itself and then become very hard to displace, at least directly. A classic example is the internal combustion automobile (which I’ll call the “gas auto” for shorthand). Commercial production started over 130 […]
Windows XP end-of-life on April 8, 2014: the debate [UPDATED]
![Windows XP end-of-life on April 8, 2014: the debate [UPDATED]](http://brucefwebster.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Windows_XP_SP3-300x200.png "Windows XP end-of-life on April 8, 2014: the debate [UPDATED]")
[UPDATE AT END OF POST] As I mentioned in my previous post (“Windows Forever and Ever?“), Windows XP still has 33% of the desktop/laptop installed base, even though Microsoft has set its end-of-life (meaning no more security patches) for April 2014 — seven months from now. That 33% actually represents half a billion computers, all […]
“Microsoft Windows Forever and Ever?” (Windows Magazine, June 1996)
[Here’s another article I published back in 1996, this one predicting the problems that Microsoft would face as it continued to advance the Windows operating system. While I didn’t anticipate in this article the rise of post-PC devices, nor the return of Steve Jobs to Apple and subsequent transformation of NeXTstep into OS X, I […]