Originally Posted by
Octane
Hi mixture,
By 'decline of windows', my feeling is that 95% of people including myself use the computer for surfing, email, skype, playing media and facebook etc only. I use open office occassionally to write a document and that's about it. Android systems do all the above comfortably. Simply, I believe many people have no need for windows anymore. Ditto Apple. Why tie yourself into a closed, rigid, propriortary and pay as you go architecture when an open source, free and functional viable option is on offer?
Or am I missing something?
cheers
Octane
Yes, you are missing quite a bit.
How about the whole "business" reason for a computer? 95% of business users don't "surf, email, skype, play media and facebook" (that's only the 95% of non-productive users!)
Also, you're completely missing the TCO aspect. You may feel you can survive without Windows/MS Office, but you'll find that companies that make the mistake of thinking that way usually have problems not only in finding staff who are capable of using open source software, but that the inter-company issues of coping with files and systems that don't work on the open source alternatives will generally cost the 'idealist' company MORE money than those who use Windows/MS Office.
That's then hitting on the issue of trying to source LOB applications that run on open source. 95% of my customer companies have at least 1 LOB app that requires Windows.