Technoheroics

[jimhenley]

As part of uncluttering the house I saw to the Final Fate of our two aging desktop computers, a non-name XP machine I bought years ago at one of those Expo-circuit shows, and my son's old HP desktop running Vista. The HP would neither boot nor get all the way through System Restore. The no-name would boot, but the onboard networking jack had gone

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[jimhenley]

Funny, I was just thinking today about our house as a harbinger of the slow death of Windows. We spent something like 15 years with no non-MS operating systems in the house - from the time my OS/2 machine died in 1996 (I think) until the end of last year. Now we have two. I haven't considered myself any kind of computer hobbyist for at least a decade, just a user. So if non-Windows OSes are gaining market share in the Henley household it's in the teeth of not being inclined to mess too much with PCs.

On the other hand, we also have as many windows machines in the house as ever: my wife and son's working laptops and my daughter's currently broken one. Our total computer population has grown. And when I say "death of Windows" I don't mean it literally. But I could imagine a future where MS all but retreats to the corporate world, and some version of Windows becomes the OS/360 of the year 2025.

[jimhenley]

Yeah. That's why I said 2025 instead of, like, 2018.