If some foreign company wants to build a reliable OS, the market is open the way it was for the Japanese car companies competing against Ford and GM.
But if they don’t buy the newest OS, MS won’t have the millions of “Beta testers” to help them debug their OS.
The new OS will never get any better.
“If some foreign company wants to build a reliable OS, the market is open the way it was for the Japanese car companies competing against Ford and GM.”
We already had a great OS that was built right here - by IBM. It was called OS/2. But the Press lied about it and took Microsoft Windows side in the OS/2 wars and IBM cowards surrendered the fight.
But, a small band of dedicated techies bought the OEM rights to OS/2 and improved it. They developed and released eComStation.
I have been using eComStation for 8 years. It is highly reliable and extremely well-supported. Version 2.0 is due out soon.