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Microsoft's Big Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Built-In Advertising
- api 14y agoLinuxers take note: now is probably the best chance for the Linux desktop in all of history. Apple has their niche: luxury laptops and high-priced phones. Android is making inroads in the latter market. But beyond these two, there is a massive market out there. Don't believe the hype about tablets and smartphones -- they are not going to completely replace the laptop and the desktop. They might eat into its market size at the edges, but these devices are more likely to define new markets and new use cases where desktops and laptops are less practical. So now is the chance. Linux now has high-end gaming, courtesy of Valve, and Gnome 3 and Unity are the beginnings of passable non-ugly desktops. HTML5 makes web apps good enough to be first class citizens too, allowing Google Docs and other popular rich web apps viewed through browsers like Firefox and Chrome to make up for Linux's desktop app weaknesses. Go!
- mkr-hn 14y agoI hear this every time there's some shift in OS or architecture. Most recently, The Big Opportunity for Desktop Linux was the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit, XP to Vista, and Vista to Windows 7. Meanwhile, Linux continues its slow but steady rise on the desktop with little bumps from big improvements. Personally, I have no reason to switch to Linux. Windows will come with any computer I buy for the foreseeable future. It runs Chrome and Firefox, is the native target for most games, and Microsoft's design decisions make more sense to me than those of the Unity and GNOME designers.