R. I. P. Windows

Farhad ManjooWin­dows is dead. Let’s all salute it—pour out a glass for it, burn a CD for it, reboot your PC one last time. Win­dows had a good run. For a time, it pow­ered the world. But that era is over. It was killed by the unlike­li­est of col­lab­o­ra­tions—Microsoft’s ancient ene­mies work­ing over decades, in con­cert: Steve Jobs, Linus Tor­valds, and most of all, two guys named Larry and Sergey.