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Maybe in the past but not now. You seriously think that adopting cross-platform tech will make more people buy their OS? No way. It does benefit them though --
by peterhunt 15y ago
Maybe in the past but not now. You seriously think that adopting cross-platform tech will make more people buy their OS? No way. It does benefit them though -- if they can optimize their OS experience for HTML5 apps, it's easier to build it, and gives them a wide range of applications premade.
- kamaal 15y agoSure, I'm not saying they purely do it for that reason alone. There is always going to be a gap which they can't and will never acquire. Its not like IBM from the 80's where a computer and every thing related to it was synonymous with IBM. But they selling SQL Server and C# et al and other programming tools has nothing to do with competing with Oracle or MySQL. Those are to ensure enough developers are trained to use them so that they can sell more OS licenses later.