Stefan Mileschin

Just like the US car industry in the 1970s

A former Microsoftee turned analyst, Wes Miller, claims that Windows-powered PCs are now stuck in the same rut that American cars grappled with in 1973 to 1983.

Writing in his bog he said that from 1973 to 1983, the American automotive industry was stuck in a rut that is now referred to as the Malaise Era.

"This period of time, marked by some of the most underwhelming, gutless, depressing cars ever to come out of the United States, was bookended on the frontside by the energy crisis and the need for manufacturers who had focused purely on displacement and horsepower to shift their thinking to focus instead on efficiency, at a time that “efficiency” may as well have been a word from a foreign language to them. To compound things, emission controls added to vehicles beginning in 1974 pushed vehicle performance even further down, while often actually compromising fuel economy,"

He said that the same situation applies to PCs. Until Vista, Microsoft pushed and pushed the technical boundaries of computing, repeatedly asking for more memory, processor power, and eventually graphics processing power with each major revision of the OS. PC manufacturers repeatedly responded by opting for faster and faster Intel processors, eventually adding multiple cores, more and more RAM, and incredibly powerful graphics processors.
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