Many have been saying that time will come when the grip of Microsoft’s Windows on the market would be threatened by its own weight, the time is now. Gone is the time of the one size fit’s all philosophy and this is evident in their introduction from XP to Vista which not many prefer. The main reason, reliability of XP that has evolved since it was first introduced way back 2003. The OS has become so stable that it took the place of Windows 98′ as the preferred OS with all the right stuff in one neat package. That monopoly which has been held by the market is based on a one product fits all (through trim down versions and other editions such as the Media Center from 2005 which capitalized on the area of multimedia) This goes for all applications, from the home desktop, office laptop and desktops to server OS systems that are now feeling the crunch as people shift to more open-systems such as Ubuntu and Linux.
Why shift from a stable system developed by the industry’s largest and best developer, well, first they’re not the best anymore for the open-systems have gained ground allowing older PC’s to work at par as the latest multi-core driven computer systems. These alternate Operating Systems are developed and maintained by a group of industry experts and all users get to voice their needs and initiate changes according to relevance. The control Windows had with all the support and software updates coming from one big global company which sometimes doesn’t get what the user really wants (well, mostly really) has fed up most of us. Useless updates that make old systems slower, excessive overhead (in terms of disk space, memory and processor needs) and the notion that software drives the hardware development industry hand in hand rather than the hardware doing the same.