If "doomed" means a slow eventual death, absolutely everything has been doomed from the start.
Re:Windows is doomed
by seanmcdirmid on Friday September 01, 2017 @10:59AM
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Yes, death is inevitable. The trick is, can you tell where your life rise ends and your fall begins? Doomed is typically identified at or after that point.
Windows hasn't been on the upswing since the early 2000s. According to this definition, the product has been doomed for over half its life.
Re:Windows is doomed
by seanmcdirmid on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:32AM
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Having worked at Microsoft from 2007 to 2016, I definitely saw windows during my almost tenure go from a growing profit center to all of a sudden having losses.
I think that a significant reduction to the user base may actually lead to Microsoft actually stopping all further development of windows, because I believe that the cost of developing, updating, and securing windows is massive.
Re:Windows is doomed
by seanmcdirmid on Friday September 01, 2017 @10:57AM
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They have enough market to justify continued development at a slower pace, but windev (OSG?) is no longer going to have growing profit and they would probably cut back on R&D and focus on ASG and C&E where profit growth is happening.
Reading the article, the problem becomes more obvious: without mobile, they have a huge gap in their offering and have to embrace competing OS's (Cortana goes nowhere with a non mobile windows).
"Doomed" means a slow eventual death, not an immediate one. This reminds me of how people were so busy knocking down strawmen with the whole post-PC thing.