Windows dies faster than expected

[Skybird]

http://www.asymco.com/2012/07/04/the...ows-advantage/

The trend is clear.

Post-PC devices wiped out of leverage faster than it was originally built. They not only reversed the advantage but cancelled it altogether. Considering the near future, it’s safe to expect a “parity” of iOS+OS X vs. Windows within one or two years. The install base may remain larger for some time longer but the sales rate of alternatives will swamp it in due course.
The consequences are dire for Microsoft. The wiping out of any platform advantage around Windows will render it vulnerable to direct competition. This is not something it had to worry about before. Windows will have to compete not only for users, but for developer talent, investment by enterprises and the implicit goodwill it has had for more than a decade.
It will, most importantly, have a psychological effect. Realizing that Windows is not a hegemony will unleash market forces that nobody can predict.

I maybe will buy another Windows system sooner or later (as a game and sim launcher exclusively), but I will never buy a Windows-only peripheral hardware anymore. To me, Windows/Microsoft is a dead end. The future will be others'. And after their Windows-10 disaster, Microsoft deserves every single bit of this fate.