Well, I don't know about the general public, but in my circles - everyone, really. But then again, I studied chemistry, and work with engineers. But I would say that a large majority of technical jobs (everything excluding software development, really - whether it's chemical industry, energy industry, pharma, automobile industry, agriculture ...) requires some specific proprietary software, which costs a lot of money, and can't be "just swapped out".
Or take SCADA - most of them are windows based. That's not likely to change anytime soon.
Edit: Kano, we're talking about desktops here, aren't we...
Now okay, I concede the point that at the high-school level, rarely does anyone need anything past an office suite, a web browser and maybe a good IDE. But the moment you go to uni and start studying anything at the school of science or the school of engineering (not school of maths/computing), you will see that there is a lot of stuff which tends to work much better under windows...
Or take SCADA - most of them are windows based. That's not likely to change anytime soon.
Edit: Kano, we're talking about desktops here, aren't we...
Now okay, I concede the point that at the high-school level, rarely does anyone need anything past an office suite, a web browser and maybe a good IDE. But the moment you go to uni and start studying anything at the school of science or the school of engineering (not school of maths/computing), you will see that there is a lot of stuff which tends to work much better under windows...
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