> Windows Mobile is killing Microsoft on the mobile and embedded > platforms
Fixed that for you... On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Dino K <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
