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They don't like it but...
Authored by: tiger99 on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 06:30 AM EDT
Well, let us consider that in some more detail, and look where M$ have lost, or just can't compete.

  • Washing machines and other kitchen appliances (Gates claimed that WinCE was ideal for those, but almost all still use a 4 or 8 bit microcontroller, and housewives like the standard rotary knob)
  • Routers (don't have any use for a GUI, most run Linux)
  • Printers. Some larger office models run various varieties of *nix
  • NAS boxes and other storage appliances
  • Video recorders/ Cable TV boxes (many use TIVO or similar)
  • Gadgets such as Chumby....
  • Inexpensive educational computers, starting with OLPX/XO, now Raspberry Pi etc
  • PDAs, but who uses one now, see phones
  • Firewalls and security appliances
  • Supercomputers

Now let us think about where their failure to compete is probable, but not yet proven, due to being very late to market, or just plain useless.

  • Phones (remember the KIN?)
  • Tablets

Now think about where M$ still has a significant share of the market.

  • Desktops/laptops (80 to 85%?, Apple on the increase)
  • Servers (business, not web), maybe 50%
  • Web servers (25%?) The "industry standard" is LAMP, but "L" is sometimes FreeBSD.

Now let us think specifically about the closely related phone and tablet markets. Android are outselling Apple 2 to 1 nbumerically, but mostly on phones, Apple dominate tablets, and Crackberry seems to be on the way out, preceded by Nokia who have dumped Symbian. The market is in no fit state to accomodate a newcomer who has already failed once.

It basically leaves the desktop as the only place which may keep M$ afloat. Now people are becoming thoroughly sick of the unreliability of Windoze, indeed both the Windoze developers which I know actually do their work on Apples. Kids are already learning to program on OLPC, and in more developed countries they will begin on Raspberry Pi, so instead of learning how to click a mouse and navigate the inefficient and dysfunctional ribbon interface they will actually know how a computer works. They will not want an OS that is dumbed down to the most moronic level. So demand for Windoze desktops is going to fall. (In any case, except for those who do serious work all day on their computers, tablets have become more attractive.)

When M$ begin to lose their partly illegal grip on the desktop market, they will fail quite quickly. Not too long now, I think.

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They don't like it but...
Authored by: PJ on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 08:57 AM EDT
That would be the cherry on top of the SCO
saga, then. It was all for nothing.

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