Hardly a tear-jerker story...

Maybe I'm wrong - it could happen - but I think the personal computer is far from dead. Suffering some fad-induced unemployment perhaps, but not dead.
Maybe Microsoft should team up with someone like Acer or Lenovo and start making their own brand of computers. They'd be cheaper than those overpriced ones from Apple, and they'd be just as reliable, and they'd have the operating system used by ninety percent of the world's serious business people. What's not to love about that?

My two desktops are both Acer, one a quad-core and one a dual-core, and both are now really old by computer standards. One dates to 2008 and the other to 2009, and the only improvements to them have been the addition of more RAM and better graphics cards with their own memory on them, to make them work easier and faster. Both of these computers have proven themselves able to run Windows 10, and they are each presently running Windows 8.1, and Windows 8 and Windows 7 SP1. That triple-booting slows them up a little, but they are doing it OK.

And there are ways to help them do it. For example, get the program 'CCleaner' which finds and cleans out junk files and unnecessary temporary files and old log files you'll never need again. Get two or three good security programs to keep the malicious stuff out of it, and remember to dump your User's Temp and Windows Temp folders contents regularly. Temp files are just that: temporary. They're only needed while another application is being installed or modified, and they aren't meant to be saved forever, so dump them out to recover the space. The way to keep a computer running well is to keep it clean and free of junk.

And don't believe those stories you may hear saying Apple's Macs run a more reliable operating system. I have it from a former Apple dealer that those have just as many problems as anyone else does - they just don't talk about them. And that story about Apple computers not being the victims of virus attacks is also make-believe. There's viruses out there now which do target them. And you may not even be aware of it.

There are still reasons to own and use a desktop computer. For example, you can't easily substitute a 30-inch flat-screen TV for the monitor on a tablet or a laptop or a hand-held, but you can with a desktop. I'm doing it, and once you get used to the bigger screens, you'll never go back to smaller ones. Trust me.