^ No, there is no competition for operating system software. That is a monopoly and if you wanted evidence of this just look at the continuing issues of licensing and anticompetitive lawsuits thrown at the company.
The reason Apple never got anywhere is bcoz of MS "agreements" with retailers. The reason Netscape went out of business was bcoz of anti competitive behavior.
Google might be gargantuan but from my perspective theyre a fairer choice than MS. We'll see what happens after W7 releases bcoz that might actually be one of MS's last big os release. I wonder whether Google can sue MS for excluding the choice over operating systems, if for example you could just download it are you easily able to just reinstall or what.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
