The problem with being 'the only game in town' is that people often move away. As long as people use the x64/x86 chipsets, Windows will be around. When they st

The problem with being 'the only game in town' is that people often move away. As long as people use the x64/x86 chipsets, Windows will be around. When they stop using those chips, Windows will fade away. Microsoft's cash-cow used to be Windows, all else derived from that. Microsoft itself is becoming less relevant, it doesn't have much that is exclusive any more. A prediction: When China becomes the main chip producer towards the end of this decade, we will start using Asian-designed chips. The software for those newer advanced chips will become the next major operating-system(s). Windows, and possibly Linux and MacOS too, will disappear quite quickly.