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your talking opinion im talking facts... example, Windows does hold 90% of the market share. That is a fact. To me that tells me something about which one is more liked.
you saying linux is as good as Windows is obviously only your opinion. with all do respect
and yes not in corporate. Besides Red hat, which companies use a linux distro as there companies main OS?
To a degree,, it all depends on what changes they do make from one OS to the next.
How much backward compatibility they remove, etc.
If they stick to a single platform (which I think they will for a while) then it should be ok. But that won't be forever, and if we are talking every 3 to 5 years of a new OS.
You could be looking at 6 to 8 different Windows OS's in a single environment, From NT4 to Win 10.
Windows got 90% of the marketshare because of Bill Gates's savvy business mind when he got contracts to put Windows on the early PCs.
MS continued its dominance with those contracts, and the fact that people became ingrained with an easy-to-use OS.
Again, the reason Windows is popular with the average user is because it is a point and click OS. People with a very wide range of IQs can use it.
If we judged "how good" an OS is by its features, Mac OS would win out, because it comes with a lot of functionality out of the box (advanced image editing, video editing etc)
OS-wise, Linux is just as good as Windows, only it has a steeper learning curve. BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT BAD.
Linux is simply geared towards a different audience than Windows.
How is it so inferior to Windows? Please enlighten me.
Yes, it could amount to many different versions in one environment. BUT, since companies and organizations don't typically upgrade immediately, that can be avoided.
Orgs will have to be careful here on out how they upgrade to avoid such problems when an OS is drastically changed code-wise (XP -> 7).
What about Google Chromium, the cloud etc. How much longer will we need to keep paying out for new OSs?
I've heard that 8 will be able of handling 128bit and will boot in under 30 sec(there's post about it somewhere) any ideas if its going to happen?
Edit: also will be able to use usb 3.0 which is almost out and has transfer speed of something like 120 mb/sec
As it is true that technology advances are quicker in 3 years now, than 3 years in 1995.. we dont need a new OS personally, or even with business endeavors...but, for those who just want new things which is a HUGE market, they take advantage of me, I mean them...