>Windows will live on — in a PC industry now at a plateau.
In America, maybe. Are they claiming the number of PCs will not increase significantly? Especially given their losing ground to OSX, they're most certainly not at a plateau that isn't self-inflicted.
Yes, but large parts of the world are explicitly trying to avoid becoming dependent on MS software. While Windows is still growing in other countries, quite a few are subsidizing or requiring the use of other OSes (usually linux), trying to avoid too much lock-in. [Added: OK, I see what you are getting at, I had read the original paper to mean that Windows on PCs was at a plateau; it is pretty common to use PC to mean a PC with Windows. And with iPads, netbooks, smart phones and the like, the PC form factor might actually be at a plateau itself, or approaching one.]
In America, maybe. Are they claiming the number of PCs will not increase significantly? Especially given their losing ground to OSX, they're most certainly not at a plateau that isn't self-inflicted.