On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Chris Louden <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I sort of disagree with that. I don't think the average user needs > too. The limitation is in accessing data. As things become more web > based it would be easy to switch from one OS to another. The browser > will matter more. > > I could easily see the company I work for switching over to Ubuntu or > similar for the desktop OS. The limitation is in data > access/applications. We have several apps that just don't have a Linux > counterpart and are not in a web based version. > By disagreeing with me you couldn't have put what I wanted to say into better words. There's just no Linux counterpart to a lot of things and the environment is not familiar to Jane in accounting which uses her JDE or MAS90 apps... Where I see Microsoft losing bigtime right now is the mobile front, Android is killing Microsoft on the mobile and embedded platforms, why use a paid OS when you can do it free, put your resources into customization of the OS like SenseUI from HTC or MotoBlur from Motorola, or the new interface from Sony on the Xperia X10 forthcoming. On those platforms the core internals are even less relevant to the user as the interface experience. -DK
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