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What do you think would happen if Microsoft closes shop Jan 1 2003?

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This latest judgement against microsoft made a thought pop in my head. What do you think would happen if Bill Gates wakes up and says, "thats it, im tired of getting sued! Tired of the whole damn thing. I am closing Microsoft"

Before you spout of some Anti-Microsoft comment, sit back and think about the question. If Microsoft closed it would SERIOUSLY impact the world. I think our government would have to step in and take it over.



 
everything would be messed up....but it would be a huge market for tech support communities and OS platforms (like OS X and Linux/unix).

-=bmacd=-
 
That would never happen but if it did, then there would be a lot of unhappy xbox owners... oh and a lot of people would be out jobs.
 
Originally posted by: Atlantean
That would never happen but if it did, then there would be a lot of unhappy xbox owners... oh and a lot of people would be out jobs.
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Yeah, that is a lot of people who are coming back into the job market...
 
The government would step in and take control of the assets after declaring some sort of national emergency. If you think Im kidding, think again 🙂

For better or worse, we are stuck with Winblows 3001.
 
This latest judgement against microsoft made a thought pop in my head. What do you think would happen if Bill Gates wakes up and says, "thats it, im tired of getting sued! Tired of the whole damn thing. I am closing Microsoft"
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Does he still own more than 50% of the stock? (I don't think so.) Remember it's a publicly-held company, not (quite) a personal empire.

But assuming he could press a magic self-destruct button to destroy Microsoft and unleash a worldwide virus to disable every running copy of Winows, he'd be arrested as a domestic terrorist.

Or are you trying to imply in "it's a wonderful life" fashion how miserable we'd all be if Bill Gates hadn't formed Microsoft and created his monopoly? That's almost impossible to say -- there would definitely be desktop computers, but who knows whether anyone besides him would have had the brilliant idea to offer a single, more-or-less hardware-independent OS to anyone who wanted to sell it?

Most reasonable people will admit that Gates and Microsoft have done a lot of good in creating the idea of a generic PC running a common OS. Most everyone reading this should also be willing to admit that Microsoft has also done evil, in strangling infant competitors before they grew big enough to offer a real threat, and in creating and enforcing proprietary patented non-standards that help to raise insurmountable barriers against anyone wanting to develop a Windows clone.
 
CHAOS!

how would field all the people who call MS tech support?

No more MS base of knowledge. NO more updates. People would cry.


Hell if i had to shutdown, i'd take everything with me.

GO BILL!
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
This latest judgement against microsoft made a thought pop in my head. What do you think would happen if Bill Gates wakes up and says, "thats it, im tired of getting sued! Tired of the whole damn thing. I am closing Microsoft"
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Does he still own more than 50% of the stock? (I don't think so.) Remember it's a publicly-held company, not (quite) a personal empire.

But assuming he could press a magic self-destruct button to destroy Microsoft and unleash a worldwide virus to disable every running copy of Winows, he'd be arrested as a domestic terrorist.

Or are you trying to imply in "it's a wonderful life" fashion how miserable we'd all be if Bill Gates hadn't formed Microsoft and created his monopoly? That's almost impossible to say -- there would definitely be desktop computers, but who knows whether anyone besides him would have had the brilliant idea to offer a single, more-or-less hardware-independent OS to anyone who wanted to sell it?


Most reasonable people will admit that Gates and Microsoft have done a lot of good in creating the idea of a generic PC running a common OS. Most everyone reading this should also be willing to admit that Microsoft has also done evil, in strangling infant competitors before they grew big enough to offer a real threat, and in creating and enforcing proprietary patented non-standards that help to raise insurmountable barriers against anyone wanting to develop a Windows clone.
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Damn dude lighten up, its just a thought. Some of us nerds just take things too seriously. 😉

What I am implying is that the WORLD is dependent on Microsoft, and the World would be in big trouble if it really did happen.
 
There would be less neffing.

In fact if windows went down, the internet for the most part is gone as well as most sites like this one.

Consider if 90 percent or more of your business base disappeared. By the time everyone came up to speed on linux, your doors would be closed.
 
Yah enthusiasts would take up the source code of all products and form a new company:

Micro[ H ]ard

Windows would be optimized for games and 3dmark2k1 would run in the background 24-7.

Chiz
 
Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
There would be less neffing.

In fact if windows went down, the internet for the most part is gone as well as most sites like this one.

Consider if 90 percent or more of your business base disappeared. By the time everyone came up to speed on linux, your doors would be closed.
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Yes, we all know how difficult it is to run Mozilla on Linux
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Actually with games moving to consoles, there are fewer and fewer reasons to buy windows. You can do Internet and word processing on any OS
 
Originally posted by: Citrix
This latest judgement against microsoft made a thought pop in my head. What do you think would happen if Bill Gates wakes up and says, "thats it, im tired of getting sued! Tired of the whole damn thing. I am closing Microsoft"

Before you spout of some Anti-Microsoft comment, sit back and think about the question. If Microsoft closed it would SERIOUSLY impact the world. I think our government would have to step in and take it over.
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no single company is that critical to the world's economy, particularly since there are already alternatives to Windows & MSoft applications.
 
Originally posted by: SuperTool
Originally posted by: Hayabusarider There would be less neffing. In fact if windows went down, the internet for the most part is gone as well as most sites like this one. Consider if 90 percent or more of your business base disappeared. By the time everyone came up to speed on linux, your doors would be closed.
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Yes, we all know how difficult it is to run Mozilla on Linux
rolleye.gif
Actually with games moving to consoles, there are fewer and fewer reasons to buy windows. You can do Internet and word processing on any OS
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Think Joe Consumer as even heard of linux? Some users can barely deal with a mouse.
 
Originally posted by: Spamela
Originally posted by: Citrix
This latest judgement against microsoft made a thought pop in my head. What do you think would happen if Bill Gates wakes up and says, "thats it, im tired of getting sued! Tired of the whole damn thing. I am closing Microsoft"

Before you spout of some Anti-Microsoft comment, sit back and think about the question. If Microsoft closed it would SERIOUSLY impact the world. I think our government would have to step in and take it over.
Click to expand...

no single company is that critical to the world's economy, particularly since there are already alternatives to Windows & MSoft applications.
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Wrong, 90% of the world uses Microsoft products in business and everyday life.
The alternatives you speak of are not the standard, file conversions would be a nightmare.
 
Originally posted by: Spamela
Originally posted by: Citrix
This latest judgement against microsoft made a thought pop in my head. What do you think would happen if Bill Gates wakes up and says, "thats it, im tired of getting sued! Tired of the whole damn thing. I am closing Microsoft"

Before you spout of some Anti-Microsoft comment, sit back and think about the question. If Microsoft closed it would SERIOUSLY impact the world. I think our government would have to step in and take it over.
Click to expand...

no single company is that critical to the world's economy, particularly since there are already alternatives to Windows & MSoft applications.
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There are alternatives, but to implement them throughout the world would take a while, and the economy will be affected, at least till a replacement like Linux or OSX be offered.

That?s, of course, is *IF* windows suddenly decides not to work.
 
Okay, then all MS code goes free source and we'll have a kick ass OS in a couple of years for free? How's that bad? Office would be the same way.

All the other software vendors would take up the slack too.
 
Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
Originally posted by: SuperTool
Originally posted by: Hayabusarider There would be less neffing. In fact if windows went down, the internet for the most part is gone as well as most sites like this one. Consider if 90 percent or more of your business base disappeared. By the time everyone came up to speed on linux, your doors would be closed.
Click to expand...
Yes, we all know how difficult it is to run Mozilla on Linux
rolleye.gif
Actually with games moving to consoles, there are fewer and fewer reasons to buy windows. You can do Internet and word processing on any OS
Click to expand...

Think Joe Consumer as even heard of linux? Some users can barely deal with a mouse.
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So what? Mandrake is not that much harder to use than Windows. Sure if you want to use the shell you need to know what you are doing. But pointing a mouse on the netscape icon is the same in Linux or Windows.
 
Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
Think Joe Consumer as even heard of linux? Some users can barely deal with a mouse.
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Think Joe Consumer has even heard of windows? Those kind of people don't know or care what OS their computer runs. If it comes with Linux, they will run Linux, and they'll most likely never even realize it.
 
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