[LinuxUsers] Fwd: Microsoft-buntu

[Chris Louden]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Mark Traceur <marktraceur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Windows Mobile is killing Microsoft on the mobile and embedded
>> platforms
>
> Fixed that for you...

HAHAHA!


>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Dino K <socallinux at cloudcomp.info> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Chris Louden <chris at chrislouden.com> 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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