The death of Microsoft Windows
"Every month, Linux goes up," Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group, told ZDNet last year.
Linux usage on Microsoft Azure cloud has now surpassed Windows usage, according to Microsoft Linux kernel developer Sasha Levin, demonstrating how far the open source OS has come since former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux a "cancer" back in 2001.
Today a pseudo tech CEO's and IT pseudo professionals insist to keep an operating system that it is destined to die, only because it supplies a legacy platform to much older software built in WinDev(MSAccess that can compile), VB6, Clarion, Etc...
I totally understand it's easy to install, easy to maintain, and even if your customer doesn't keep a support subscription, Windows guarantees to fail so much that you can easily invoice as much just by the remote support or even better the Support On-Site.
Today even Microsoft is ditching its own OS and implementing Linux on the desktop, we can see a change in vision from the big players but we still to keep up with the small ones.