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btw, I do apologize for my ignorance on oracle...
Starred-profanity warrants an apology, not knowing something about Oracle doesn't.
btw, I do apologize for my ignorance on oracle...
People are talking alot lately about Windows dying and Linux taking over etc etc all this dumb stuff. I have a few reasons why these are exaggerated and probably will never happen.
1. Even though Android devices sell alot, Microsoft is actually making more than some of the OEMS! So the more android sells, the more money MS has to fund Windows.
2. WP offers the best experience at the medium and low end- If you've ever used a non high end Android device, you'll know what I am talking about. It's embarrassing how slow the phones are, not to mention they runs many apps poorly.
3. Linux has no standard- Linux has thousands of distros... Most with simple issues Widnwos solved a long time ago.
4. No one cares about open source.- they just want what works.
Windows Phone and Windows just lacks support in areas, Google hasn't brought over its youtube and maps services to windows phone, and apps like instagram aren't available either. People who consider switch wanna see their apps. Lets not forget Google's Glass services which they announced will be compatible with the iPhone, this big movement of not using your phone all the time will push people away from incompatible services such as windows phone.
Has anyone read this yet? - Microsoft multiyear license growth softens pain of PC decline | Reuters
I was going to make a separate thread but think this fits in fine here. Only 20% of MSFT revenue comes from actual PC market!
I don't think people are saying Windows is dying to desktop Linux, but that it's losing its relevance and dominance to simpler mobile platforms. And that is true – the iPad can accomplish most, if not all of the computing requirements of the average PC user, and that switch happens to many daily. However, it's also a problem that Microsoft is actively trying to address with Windows 8. The broken comparison I find is when mobile platforms are combined into category against Windows and those figures used to prove that Windows is dying. If you consider Windows to be a platform like iOS and Android, which it is, then it's not doing that bad at all. Microsoft doesn't need to have 95% market share in order to succeed in a market.
The more outlandish claim that Chromebooks are going to destroy Windows is a result of the echo chamber that is the US-dominated tech sphere.
UNIX is not open-source, it is proprietary and created by AT&T, which later divested it to Bell Labs. MINIX was UNIX-based and originally inexpensive, but only available in education (it did not become free until 2005). Linux was created by Linus Torvalds as a way to expand beyond proprietary and educational institution only.
Not all Linux distros are free. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise are commercial products. Fedora and openSUSE are the free variants of those distros.