What if Microsoft and Apple merged?

The question today is what if Microsoft and Apple merged? Lets pretend for a moment that Microsoft and Apple put away their spike covered clubs and large sharp machetes to strike a deal. Lets say that they merged into one company so that they can each gain from each others ideas and solutions. Lets also pretend that they decided to make the best damned operating system known to man.

How would this affect our current computer market? What do you think this new company would be called? Would we see a new company emerge like a phoenix rising from the ashes of so much controversy? would Mac and PC fanboy’s alike throw down their gloves and embrace each other in a sick and twisted version of our favorite campfire songs? These questions I leave to you, my readers…

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What if there was no more internet?

The question for today is what if there was no more internet? We all live in a society that has an online heart beat. Whether it be by blogging or by keeping in touch with each other through social networks such as Twitter or Myspace. Our businesses thrive online at a pace that brick and mortar shops only dream of. We buy our clothes, gifts, needs and pleasures of life on the internet. We have become integrated into a world where the internet is just as essential to life as vehicles or telephones.

What if one day not only did your home computers get infected but the whole of the internet network and all the backbone servers got infected by a virus that destroyed any system it was on. Also lets say we didn’t have any way to recover from this problem. How would we function as a whole? Would we go back to the days of pen, paper and calculator or would we plunge into chaos and disarray without our digital extremeties? I leave these questions to you, my readers.

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What if technology was destroyed?

The question I pose today is what if technology was destroyed? We all rely on technology in one way or another. We rely on the news from our television to give us the weather and our vehicles to get us to and from work. We even use technology to do most business nowadays whether its with a blackberry or managing team projects through task management software. We NEED technology whether we like it or not… not because we can’t survive with it inherently as human beings but because we have become so dependent on it as a society of civilized people.

Now lets say one day an EMP large enough to spread over the whole world was released and it took out all the technology that runs off of computers and microchips. Lets say that now anything that deals with electronics is fried to the core. How would we cope with this sudden change in our lifestyle? How would we adapt to such an extreme change? What would our lifestyle convert to without these dependancies? These questions I leave to you my readers.

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What if Microsoft stopped doing OS’s?

The question I present today is what if Microsoft stopped doing OS’s? So many companies and individuals rely on the Microsoft brand to do their day to day workings on the computer. Whether its to figure out finances or its to play an addicting game of World of Warcraft some PC user’s rely solely on the Microsoft market to survive in a thriving world of electronics and Internet Communications. What if one day support was dropped and windows was eventually phased out?

How do you think that we would react to the overwhelming need for another supported Operating System? would all of the Microsoft Windows users switch to Mac OSX? Would the situation of Windows being knocked of the rung create an environment that would allow a competitive distribution of Linux that caters to windows users to rise to power? These questions are yours to think about… I hand this off to you the people…

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