“Did you ever hear the warning, ‘be careful what you wish for,
it might come true?’ Well, because Microsoft is the company most
people love to hate, I decided to ask a cross section of industry
cognoscenti this simple question: What would happen if Microsoft
and all of its technology disappeared tomorrow?“‘Initially, panic in the streets,’ says Tony Meadow, president
of Bear River Associates, an ISV focusing on mobile applications.
‘[Microsoft] didn’t establish [its standards] in a nice sort of
way, but they are the basis for a lot of things that we use and do
with computers…'”