Microsoft Meets Its Timely Demise—and Other Tech Fantasies

The problem with the Microdeath Dream Fantasy is reality. Haters tend to forget that Microsoft derives a huge amount of revenue from corporate Windows sales tied to long-term business software purchase agreements. (Microsoft, for example, minted money during the entirety of the Vista era.) Also, let’s remember that 400 million or so PCs will be sold in 2013 and that Windows will be sitting on just about every one of those computers. This is the reason that the drop in April 2009 was mostly a blip—Windows sales have been well north of $4 billion per quarter ever since.

Reality check especially for the people who fantasize about death of Microsoft.