Microsoft’s dominance in operating systems will continue – though only for the next few years.
According to Mark Russinovich, co-author of Microsoft Press’ Windows Internals and Inside Windows 2000, Microsoft will preserve its software dominance over alternatives such as Linux for the next two to four years, chiefly because the open-source community doesn’t have the same cash and resources to tap up as the world’s largest software company.
Windows “still has a much more focused organisation looking at high performance”, Russinovich said at this week’s Microsoft IT Forum event in Copenhagen.