As predicted already a few years ago, Windows is collapsing. From the dominant OS in the world, Microsoft is hemorrhaging clients while optimizing profits and that unfortunately is often how monopolistic companies disappear. By the time, corporate clients start ditching Windows 11, it will be too late. Most people will already have either moved back to windows 10, moved on to Apple or the different flavors of Linux. More ominously, Microsoft will do absolutely nothing. Stuck with their failing strategy, their only option will be to double down and move faster towards an even more toxic Windows 12 that will seal the fate of the OS. Changing course will be impossible due to the certainty of reduced income and the inability to look beyond the maximum profit horizon defined earlier.
With Windows, it is an epoch which will pass. The gap between the 1990s fall of the Soviet Union, when America became the sole super-power and the 2020s, when the rise of China and BRICS closed the parenthesis. And just like the software on which it prospered, America will see nothing. Hubris will reign in Washington while at the core, the boat will be floundering.
