Hi Rohan ----- On 27 Mar, 2023, at 9:52 AM, Rohan McLeod via luv-main [email protected] wrote:
> Assembled Cogniscenti > Just out of curiousity I 'googled' > > +windows on a +"linux kernal" ? +2023 > > Rather irritatingly it ignored the "+" but regardless one of the 'finds' > was: > https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/28/eric_raymond_linux_beats_windows_prediction/ > > My questions are: > -Is this a nighmare scenario ? > - A reason to celebrate ? > -none of the above ? Nada. With Edge, MS didn't port anything. The current Edge browser is based on Chromium, which (as we all know) already compiles on Linux. In terms of the Azure cash cow, that's definitely the case. And currently about half of the VMs on Azure run Linux as well. Windows is not a money maker, and probably never has been. It used to be an enabler. It provides a baseline desktop so a variety of applications has been run. Obviously, that's now less important. If you have an iPad, you can still use O365. Most apps require Internet and are just web apps (for better or worse). So one can expect less innovation in Win itself, I think that makes sense. And that's going to tick off the power users, who on their own nevertheless don't add enough economic weight to that business equation. We'll see. What's the point of conjecturing anyway, what's the objective? Predicting a new "year of the Linux desktop" ? :-) Most people use one already, it's their Android phone. Some years ago Google looked ahead in their own way, and came with ChromeOS. See that in the context of the above...makes sense. Regards, Arjen. -- Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering.https://www.mailguard.com.au/mg _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
