TECHNOLOGY LAB / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Windows 8, the post-PC world, and Linux: Microsoft will prevail

TECHNOLOGY LAB / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 

Windows 8, the post-PC world, and Linux: Microsoft will prevail

Since the very first reveal of Windows 8, some critics have called the operating system a fatal move for Microsoft. They call it a blunder so large in its abandonment of Windows' heritage that it has created an opportunity for other operating systems to rise up and seize large portions of Windows' customer base in the consumer and enterprise markets. Others see Windows 8 as a sign that Microsoft is grasping for relevance in a world where Windows and the PC itself are waning. In this view, the once-mighty "Wintel" platform is already dead—it just doesn’t know it yet.

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