yes and no, Apple has had issues with gaining market dominance-and not from lack of effort or deep pockets they've have a dodgy history with gamers for instance who are willing to spend lots of money on software and a bit on hardware. One common argument is something like oh but you can custom build a PC for 900 dollars that has warpspeed Nvidia 9trillion with 4gigs of ram- and it'll run Call of Duty: black ops at 125 FPS- and those are the types of users I don't for see a linux distro being able to woo over. On the linux side of things- yes it's great that many linux distros are solid and have some amount of reliability in terms of active forums when issues come up, it's great the software is politically and technically correct in many aspects. However again there is no native MS. Office for linux, much less many top billed games the kinds of things that Joe Average looks for imidiatly. Joe Average has very little interest in the command line and having to edit lots of files just to get his pet software running. I've personally have tride to do some stunts with whine and it's painful. - those developers and designers haven't quite gotten the sex appeal of when something goes wrong with my apt-get --update and something goes kaboom to call a 1800 number. Untill those things happen windows isn't going anywhere. Though you do bring up a good point about the awkward transition of the mouse and click to a united tablet/desktop UI on the windows side. Ubuntu and Apple might be doing that a little better.
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: > > I tried to install an older Windows program on a new Windows 8 system > today, but got a lot of errors and problems. Actually I tried to install > CorelDraw9, which I have used for drawings in the past, on my new Samsung > Series 7 "Chronos" laptop, which uses Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 in a dual > boot installation. The hassle during installation inspired me to write this > blog post about the rise and fall of the Microsoft empire. > http://4loc.wordpress.com/**2013/05/18/the-rise-and-fall-** > of-the-microsoft-empire/<http://4loc.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-microsoft-empire/> > > Somehow I have a feeling that the time of total market dominance for > Microsoft is probably be over. What do you think? Apparently Microsoft has > stumbled with Windows 8, and I wonder if they will be able to get up again. > I can not get used to the changes of Windows 8, and I am sure a lot of > people experience a similar frustration. People learned how to use a > desktop with a mouse for about 20 years, and now they are expected to > forget all they have learned. > > -J. > > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/**listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >
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