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Originally posted by Rexilion View PostIt's only afloat because everyone uses Office documents and Silverlight. I had to install Office 2007 on our main Arch machine to make it usable. They only have profit because they use vendor lockin. That's all. You can see this in their failure to get a hold in the mobile and tabletmarket. And I have yet to see other appliances ran by Windows.Last edited by Pseus; 14 February 2014, 11:10 AM.
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Originally posted by Rexilion View PostIt's only afloat because everyone uses Office documents and Silverlight. I had to install Office 2007 on our main Arch machine to make it usable. They only have profit because they use vendor lockin. That's all. You can see this in their failure to get a hold in the mobile and tabletmarket. And I have yet to see other appliances ran by Windows.
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Originally posted by Rexilion View PostIt's only afloat because everyone uses Office documents and Silverlight. I had to install Office 2007 on our main Arch machine to make it usable. They only have profit because they use vendor lockin. That's all. You can see this in their failure to get a hold in the mobile and tabletmarket. And I have yet to see other appliances ran by Windows.
I was more referring to NT on other architecture's. The only other MicroSuck OS (for what I know of) was XP on Itanium machines.
So even after imitating the competition, they are not capable of pulling it off. Despite the large amount of manpower/cash.
EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I think Windows is a nice OS for most people. I just fail to see the justification for their marketshare relative to their 'innovations'.
It worked. DEC went tits up and got absorbed by COMPAQ which got absorbed by HP, SGI went bankrupt and PPC really got curtailed.
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Originally posted by danwood76 View PostMainstream Windows has been NT based since windows 2000......
Home users only got the NT treat one iteration later, under the form of Windows XP Home. That's the point when NT really got mainstream.
Meanwhile, back at the time of windows 2000, instead of having an NT-based OS, home users had... gasp... Windows ME. Ouch!
And then one wonder why the sudden rush to Windows XP...
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Originally posted by nils_ View PostStruggling? Hardly. It's still a very profitable company, even with the many failed products.
My computing purchases from 1997 (when I bought my first PC) to 2007 were:
1. Windows, dual-booting Linux.
2. Windows
3. Windows
4. Windows
My computing purchases from 2008 to today have been:
1. Linux
2. Linux
3. Windows, replaced by Linux
4. Windows, replaced by Linux
5. Linux
6. Linux
7. Android
8. Windows
9. Android
10. IOS
I think that says enough about where Windows is going. The Windows 7 PC is by far the most powerful in the house, but it only gets booted when I have an hour free to play games.
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