[dheretic]

No one is ever going to be as big as Microsoft once Microsoft falls. As a Mac user, I'm glad about that. No company should wield that much very real power over the world.

[discostu]

I hope somebody rises from the ashes. With all of the annoyance that MS spreads they've done one great thing: solidified the market. I remember buying software before the rise of MS with each line having it's own section in the store and nothing was available in all platforms, and it was a real bear for the store to trying to figure out what to have in stock (stock costs money). One platform uber alles has made the life of the average computer user (and store owner) so much easier, even though the best platform didn't win (let's hear it for DeskView). If it fragments again the industry is going to fall apart.