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They lost the server OS war, but desktop Linux seems like it will never overtake Windows and macOS.
by osigurdson 4y ago
They lost the server OS war, but desktop Linux seems like it will never overtake Windows and macOS.
- blueflow 4y agoThey lost every OS market except for the Desktop. Where it is at 75% to 80%, trending downwards. Give it another decade.
- osigurdson 4y agoIs the market share largely being taken by macOS or something else? Chromebooks perhaps?
- bombcar 4y agomacOS is the important one - if Microsoft support for office on Mac wasn’t as good as it is, they could be in existential danger. Already Google Apps has made a strong play, and Microsoft is doing quite a good job defending. Teams is only a part of it. And there’s also mobile, which they lost entirely. That could be a risk, too, and they know it.
- osigurdson 4y agoI don’t know. I bought office for my Mac 4 years ago and used it maybe twice. Google docs might not be quite as good but good enough for most things. I also hate looking at the ribbon (but that is just personal preference).
- bombcar 4y agoYeah, for home/personal use they're all the same, and many people don't own anything Microsoft in that arena - Google docs from a iPhone/Mac/Chromebook are often "good enough". Businesses they still have a stranglehold, but even there I've noticed it loosening.
- mschuster91 4y agoIn the corporate world, there seems to be a shift towards thin clients running whatever OS works best (homegrown Linux, ChromeOS, macOS) and beefy Citrix servers, as well as another shift to SaaS/on-prem/on-own-cloud web applications. Guess we're in a revival of the 70s/80s mainframes with dumb terminals again.