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Linux was called 'obsolete' in 1992, and now it powers servers around the world
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Windows was called obsolete (by me) years ago, and it's abandoned (by me) since mid 2024.
That statement really has the same vibe as the one in the post. Well done.
In 1987, Bill Gates predicted in an interview that in 3 years time, 80% of new office systems would be based on OS/2, an operating system from IBM.
The first release of Windows was in 1985, so that Computerworld interview was basically Bill Gates calling Windows obsolete.
my kind of authority