This was on Slashdot today:
"Computerworld has an article about a presentation from Gartner analysts
in Las Vegas claiming that Windows is 'collapsing', and that Microsoft
'must make radical changes to the operating system or risk becoming a
has-been.' Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald provided an analysis of
what went wrong with Vista, and what they feel Microsoft can and must do
to correct its problems. Larry Dignan of ZDNet has his own take, and
while he agrees, he suggests that the downfall of Windows will be slow
and drawn-out. As an interesting tangent to this, there's also a story
from a few days prior about Ubuntu replacing Windows for a school's
library kiosks, getting good performance out of older hardware.
'[Network administrator Daniel] Stefyn said he was "pleasantly
surprised" to discover that the Kubuntu desktops ran some applications
faster with Linux than when they ran on Windows. An additional benefit
of Windows' departure from student library terminals saw the students
cease 'hacking the setup to install and play games or trash the
operating system.'"
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