ok, there's no way that windows will ever disappear completely, or that Microsoft will ever file for bankruptcy.
Also, re: comments about nobody would buy MacOSX for ix86, because all software is pirated, and nobody would think they were going to get software et c that's just not true. Look at linux! look at BSD, to a lesser extent. You may say, "oh but linux is free", yes well, support is not, and linux support is a growing industry, thus proving that people will pay if they think they will get what they pay for. It's not about little bootlegging kids copying CDs for each other anyway, it's about companies.
Plus, if Apple pulled off the (to me) amazing feat of making MacOS binaries run on MacOSX, surely it will be simplicity itself to make MacOS (X or otherwise) programs run on an ix86 version of same, thus allowing people to use any and all of their existing Mac -compatible software on their x86...
re: windows releasing their source code. If they did, i suspect it would be both good and bad (for the M$ES!) because it would (on the good side) mean that people could (and a lot of misguided fools would) get the code, improve on it, rewrite it in C++, replace the useless bits, shave off the legacy crap and so on and so forth, and after a while, freewindows would actually be quite a useful alternative OS itself. On the other hand, all that stuff i just said, which i suspect sould easily strengthen Microsoft's position in much the same way as, well, netscape communications last decade.
[ May 30, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]