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But when they are both free, they have to compete on quality. And on smartphones, windows loses it's main advantage -- a software library dating back to the daw

But when they are both free, they have to compete on quality. And on smartphones, windows loses it's main advantage -- a software library dating back to the dawn of the pc. Microsoft cannot just take that market, but they can, and in time, probably will fight for it.

10ren 16y ago
What will happen when smartphones become powerful enough to run windows? [Thinking long-term, tectonic shifts here] There's constraints of display/keyboard size, and the form-factor encourgaes different usages (eg. less business software). But I think people might start to dock their smartphones to large displays and keyboards at home (that's what I do with my netbook) - like a portable harddrive. Projectors might also become popular, giving a large portable display. Or, future desktops might actually be smartphone components, wrapped in a desktop package (in the way microcomputers invaded the workstation, minicomputer and mainframe markets).