I agree about the number of dissatisfied users of M$ trashware. However, we
don't have that number of developers motivated to work on alternatives, so I
guess that a phone which does not do what you want is much more irritating than
a buggy, bloated OS and office suite. Just imagine if the effect did scale,
and there were millions of developers working on improving LibreOffice. M$
would be lagging umpteen years behind. They are a bit behind already, the total
failure known as Vista seemed to be modelled losely on KDE4, and Metro, or
whatever they call it this week, seems to me to be a poor copy of Ubuntu Unity,
which I hate. (At least you can easily install other, better, faster, more
versatile, or even minimalist desktops on *buntu. I use Kubuntu and KDE4 now
that it is fixed.) Going well off topic, I would suspect that when you count
web servers, appliances like routers, televisions and every Android device,
Linux, usually with some or all of the GNU stuff too (I had to add that to keep
RMS happy!) has a larger overall market share than Windoze now, yet most people,
who depend on it daily, do not even know that it is there. The battle has been
won, the public have just not seen the victory yet. It is phones and tablets
where the invisible battle has been won. The army of xda-developers was largely
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