everyone can see the
desktop is over. It now seems inevitable that applications will
live on the web—not just email, but everything, right up to
Photoshop.
The third cause of Microsoft's death was broadband Internet. Anyone
who cares can have fast Internet access
now. And the bigger the pipe to the server, the less you need the
desktop.
All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for
grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the
desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses
Microsoft's anyway.