American solders, in various conflicts, have often found themselves under fire from weapons produced by American corporations. The weapons don't care. They'll kill anyone they're pointed at.
So now we have "weapons grade" attack software. Any guess as to how long it will remain corralled? If indeed it still is.
If Microsoft is going to die, which it probably won't (not completely anyway), it won't be from a single event. It will be from a series of unrelated but collectively destructive events. Vista was one. A storm of state sponsored, highly lethal malware would be another one. I say catastrophic because a simple condition RED, which is what we've lived under for as many years as Microsoft has controlled the desktop, is ignored. It's business as usual. "Mom, I think the computer has another virus". Not, "Mom, Microsoft Windows is infected again". A subtle but very important difference.
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