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Microsoft's days as a 'primary' desktop operating system are numbered. The OP doesn't seem to understand this, but even Microsoft itself does, which is why most
by jrm4 4y ago
Microsoft's days as a 'primary' desktop operating system are numbered. The OP doesn't seem to understand this, but even Microsoft itself does, which is why most of its major moves the past few years haven't been improving its own desktop, but positioning itself to control "open source" the best it can.
More people within the MS ecosystem should understand this.
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- munchler 4y agoOne can argue that desktops are no longer the primary computing environment, but I don't think there's any evidence that Windows is about to displaced within the desktop world. What are you proposing will become the primary desktop OS? Some Linux flavor of the month? MacOS? Neither seems at all likely in the foreseeable future.
- jrm4 4y agoThere won't be a "primary" and people will perhaps not pay much attention to which it is, any more than they pay attention to e.g. what Javascript framework their favorite site is using. I've come to realize while there may never be a "year of the Linux Desktop," there will likely be "years of Linux Desktops" -e.g. Ubuntu, but then also SteamOS, ChomeOS, maybe Android if you're being REALLY inclusive, etc.
- pjmlp 4y agoBetter check those desktop market share numbers.
- blibble 4y agoI suspect if you restrict it to developers the numbers would look very, very different on the stackoverflow survey windows is 41.2%: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-technologies-op-sys-prof https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-...
- _gabe_ 4y agoIf you toggle that response to "All Respondents" instead of "Professional Developers" Windows goes up to 45%. Plus, 3% of users are using windows subsystem for Linux. So 48%. Whereas Mac and Linux are both at 25%. Even for developers, Windows is still the clear majority.
- blibble 4y agoit's very interesting to see Windows at less than 50% 20 years ago that would have been 95%+ and its market share for developers is way, way, way less than its share on desktop (which was my point)
- indymike 4y agoInteresting. So 50% Unix and 48% Windows (and 3% are targeting Unix anyway). That's quite a swing over the past 20 years - there was a time where aside the occasional web developer with a Mac, everyone was on Windows. Leaving out Linux, the interesting part has been how much market that Apple has chiseled away.
- pjmlp 4y agoCloud workloads mean UNIX has effectively won the server room for classical deployments, however UNIX !== Developer. There are plenty of other workloads and platforms to target. Desktop, mobile devices, IoT, medical, game consoles, infotainment, unikernel, serverless....
- zie 4y agoI agree with everything but the "controlling open source" bit. I think what they are actually doing is trying to create new platforms they can control, because that's a great business model. Open source, via Github is just a small piece of the pie they want. Think MS teams/Office365, Linkedin, Gaming, Github, etc. These are platforms they are interested in controlling and deriving revenue from.