I am going to explain why the wholesale movement to a single standard, Microsoft, in the business community will be a colossal disaster. It's not hard to understand once you think it out. Some Background First, I need to very briefly explain a technical term. For example, a six degree of freedom flight simulator allows motion in x, y, z coordinates and in pitch, roll, and yaw coordinates. Another way to think of a system's degrees of freedom is that it is roughly proportional to its ability to cope with stress.
Complex systems can have many constraints and few or many degrees of freedom.
Cells are placed on a grid in some initial pattern and some very simple rules determine how each cell will spawn a new cell in the next generation. By animating each successive generation, one can see the patterns grow and change. Change the constraints just a little by restricting the organism's resources, and you will see an entire generation die on the computer screen. The same effect holds true in the business place. Corporations that cannot change to meet new challenges, for whatever reason, fade into history.