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If Microsoft actually follows through with their plan to desupport Windows 10 in 2024, then (guessing) over half of their installed base will be orphaned. Linu
by chasil 5y ago
If Microsoft actually follows through with their plan to desupport Windows 10 in 2024, then (guessing) over half of their installed base will be orphaned.
Linux now bundles NTFS.
What if a rescue distro, that erased \Windows, and ran all the applications under Wine or appropriate emulation, existed at that desupport date?
Microsoft's desktop dominance would be over on that date. They would cling to corporate desktops, but the general consumer market would be lost.
ReactOS is another wildcard for 2024.
- Shadonototra 5y agomicrosoft desktop dominance is a myth microsoft lost the application war, everything is web based nowadays developpers moved on linux to deploy their web apps / servers what's left? people moved to smartphones, even for games, smartphone generates more revenue than both console / desktop combined WASM even more showcase it, the present and future is web based interfaces
- chasil 5y agoThere are a lot of .EXE's out there. Some of them require Active Directory. In the core of this, Windows is not going anywhere. Linux could do it a LOT of damage, if this 2024 plan is executed.
- nix23 5y ago>Linux could do it a LOT of damage, if this 2024 plan is executed. Haha we said the same with Vista and some even for WindowsME...and nothing has and will happen.
- Shadonototra 5y agowell things happened, windows server went extinct ;)
- nix23 5y ago>windows server went extinct Mmm No, not really, many small and medium businesses still have windows server + exchange + hyperV etc....