of course decline is also seen in software, when it's absolutely fully and completely impossible to ever write another piece of software ever again that doesn't violate dozens, maybe even hundreds of patents!!! The fact that they're mostly invalid patents has no bearing on the fact that any small to medium software business can be quickly sunk by them... It's just a ticking time bomb, soon all software writing will be forced to move offshore to survive.

Stick any desktop machine on the floor in the corner of your non-climate-controlled apartment and chances are very high it will run fine continuously for years at a time, with maybe only a fan failure once every several years which is quickly and easily replaced...

7 months is nothing at all, this entire story is all just hype! And yes, as someone mentioned, perhaps to get people to shorten lives of computers slightly so they buy windows slightly more often...