On Aug 9, 2010, at 2:19 AM, Luther Goh Lu Feng <[email protected]> wrote:
*From:* Stephan February <[email protected]> *To:* [email protected] *Sent:* Mon, August 9, 2010 1:31:49 AM *Subject:* [Slugnet] The death of desktop Linux Assertion: The rise of MacOSX, mobile smart phones and the increasing importance of the browser as platform, has rendered Windows largely irrelevant as a desktop platform. Unfortunately these trends have taken out desktop Linux as collateral damage. Discuss! Cheers Stephan What a way to start National day! Hmmmm, I am not sure how I see mobile smart phones decreasing the importance of the Windows and Linux desktop. Please kindly elaborate. The average Joe, who used to be locked in on the desktop, now increasingly uses a mobile phone as primary computing device. This trend will overtake the desktop eventually. We are not quite there yet in rendering windows irrelevant. Why? Because majority of the society see computers as very I think windows as a platform became irrelevant a while back. Most of what matters for everyday computing nowadays happens in the browser. Cheers Stephan
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