Back in Windows 3.1 days, IBM came up with a brilliant idea called OS/2 for Windows. Within a few weeks MS came up with a patch to fix some esoteric problem with Windows 3.1, that by some cosmic coincidence broke OS/2 for Windows.
The lesson is it will take a miracle to unseat MS. They are positively evil and make shoddy products that make GM cars look like high quality.
I don't think you need a miracle just a better product that is produced by thinking and hard work.
Like someone said Google can certainly unseat MS with a new operating system.
A single indidivual can do it. All it takes is a breakthrough.
I am working on an programming that takes advantage of multi -core chips like the new Intel 6 core chip. The person who solves this problem will certainly take down Microsoft because microsoft has not figured out how to do parallel programming with multiple core chips as evidenced by Vista's poor performance on dual-core processor chips.
Yes these are probably delusions of grandeur on my part. But you never know until you try.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987809/posts
“Intel Corp. today announced that it expects to ship a six-core processor to resellers in the second half of this year.
With 1.9 billion transistors and 16MB of Level 3 cache, the six-core chip, code-named Dunnington, will be built with Intel's new 45 nanometer technology, according to Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group.
“The big cache and six cores will give customers a nice bump in performance,” Gelsinger said during a press briefing today about the company's product road map and its upcoming Intel Developer Forum, slated to be held next month in Shanghai. “We're quite excited about it.”