What Comes After the Windows Era?

As a computer journalist for the last 25 years, I’ve received a lot of review copies of software. As something of an obsessive magpie, I’ve tended to keep most of it, “for referenceâ€Â. Until yesterday, that is, when I finally threw out all those copies of OS/2, Lotus SmartSuite, and my entire collection of Microsoft software. This included Windows NT 3.5, Windows 2000, Microsoft Office and many, many more. What’s makes this little spring-cleaning exercise particularly apt as well as cathartic is that all of us – and not just me – may finally be witnessing the end of the Windows era.