Well Microsoft, that is what you get when you don't build your own hardware like Apple does.

Microsoft should get out of the software business and start designing their own computers together with their own software. Want Windows? Buy that WinBox from Microsoft!

That way you know what kind of hardware is needed and you can drop support for all kinds of crap.

Let Dell, HP, etc try selling computers without an usable OS.

Even nowerdays people believe wierd nonsense and myths... like that one about how people once believed that the earth was flat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_mythology

What else that is commonly believed will turn out the be wrong?

I always thought that "being brilliant" was a proper subset of "being dangerous"?

The real problem I think is that to many managers still want/need to handle programming as predictable production work, instead of inherently unpredictable design work.