Gartner warns Microsoft Windows is Collapsing

Gartner analysts warn that Windows is collapsing.

Earlier, Microsoft announced that Windows XP is dead, see "Thank You Microsoft for Prematurely Killing Windows XP" which was worrying people who still do not want to upgrade to Vista. The benefits of Vista are not enough to make an upgrade. In fact Vista is slower than Windows XP ("Testing Shows XP Still Outperforms Vista").

I think Windows XP and Windows NT, along with DOS, were the popular and widely used Microsoft operating systems for a relatively long period of time. Windows XP is said to be the most popular operating system.

The trouble with Vista is it is becoming too complex and yet do not offer much more than Windows XP. As Gartner says, ” Among Microsoft's problems, the pair [Gartner analysts] said, is Windows' rapidly-expanding code base, which makes it virtually impossible to quickly craft a new version with meaningful changes. That was proved by Vista, they said, when Microsoft -- frustrated by lack of progress during the five-year development effort on the new operating -- hit the "reset" button and dropped back to the more stable code of Windows Server 2003 as the foundation of Vista.

Related: Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying