"Microsoft will vanish in 5 or 10 years, Facebook in 3" explains FSF President.

[Alby_da_Wolf]

KazumaKiryu said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
They won't disappear, but they'll lose power. FBK will see its power resized due to scandals, but despite them people still prefer it to other social networks by a large margin, and more than a billion people won't drop it due to the network of relationships they established on it.
OTOH MS won't disappear due to its presence in enterprises, but due to competing mobile OS' replacing Windows PCs for many home users, it will receive less money from that market that up until now allowed it to offer enterprises a competitive yet highly profitable product, so it will have to find a less favourable compromise between Windows profits and competitiveness in the business market. It won't disappear anyway, and it will remain profitable, but eventually it won't be able anymore to conquer slices of new markets with the brute force of its huge cash, as divisions losing money to keep or increase market share will gradually become more significant for the company's balance.

I find your comment interesting. you have described the situation good in my opinion. I also think that both companies will lose power.

But gone forever... I think No(i'm sure), because both have much money. And if yes.. President "Trump" would certainly help his american companies :P

ZODIARKrebirth said:
maybe the big hype for facebook is over, but i don't think it will be happen in 3 years

the big hype is over, thats true.

A help by Trump in matters he doesn't understand could end up damaging MS instead of helping it. Car makers already told him they don't need his help on pollution rules and they are perfectly able to follow the previous roadmap for pollution reduction, indeed tough anti-pollution rules favour US, EU and JP car makers and hinder competitors from emerging markets that can offer cheap costs but are still some steps behind car market leaders on high tech, unless they obtain it under licence from them. Some "brilliant" idea on SW market and protection of US SW makers could actually persuade governments outside of USA that still heavily rely on MS SW for their public administration to switch to competing SW for any task allowing it.