Could a Apple/Hyundai alliance kill microsoft?

All operating system are constantly being updated and patched for security reasons and some times bugs. I rather use Windows than Apple anytime because at least with Windows I am not tied down by proprietary hardware.

It isn't like macs don't have bugs and viruses too. It just happens to be that Windows is the dominant operating system which makes it a huge target for virus programmers, and bugs are found more often because more people are looking.

I will also add that Microsoft does have competent people working for them. I haven't ever played with unix/liniux, but Windows vista is the best computing experience I have ever had. Before vista? Hardware failure (usually as a result of me playing inside the machine) was the only instability I have ever had with windows based PCs.

To finish up, let me rephrase your last argument: "It seems to me that windows has been around for a long time, if there were competent people making ANY COMPETITION there would be no need for this question"

Nothing is going to instantly kill Microsoft. When Microsoft dies, it's going to be a slow decline that takes decades. Look at Novell. In the 80's they were the Microsoft of the day. Everyone switched to Microsoft servers in the early 90's. Almost 20 years later, they're still around, groping for new business models to survive.

Microsoft is also way too embedded is way too many corporate systems to die fast. Look at Mainframes and COBOL, both of which became obsolete in the 80's; but because so many companies had so much software running on Mainframes and COBOL, not only are those systems still around, but the original companies still survive by charging for support on those old products. What's more, IBM and others still manufacture mainframes in order to replace the ones from the 70's as they become too slow to keep up with modern demands.

there is one out there already its called linux, does everything microsoft can do via and emulator called WINE i use it to play Spore, plus its absolutly free just download a operating system you like the look of and burn it to disc, most are live cds so you can check it out without installing it to your pc, the disk becomes your operating system whilst its in the dvd drive and you can acess the net with it aswell, a good one for people coming off windows is ubuntu but as i said there are hundreds out there http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major this link will take you to a good site with loads of operating systems out there just remember like windows and mac osx you will have to learn how to use it, you learned windows so linux can be just as easy, ps there is no need for virus scanners as like mac there arnt any out there, and unlike the big two linux applications and programs are absolutly free, and as OH YEAH says all operating systems need to update regulary.

Microsoft is already dead, they are just milking it for all it is worth.

All this rubbish about the critical security patches we MUST download to prevent malicious hackers from exploiting loopholes in their atrocious, convoluted software will be the death of them. People are starting to see through the whole mess.