Skybird
09-01-17, 09:19 AM
http://theweek.com/articles/721988/windows-doomed Rough ride for Microsoft, trying to float on deep and wild waters that it has no own hardware base to travel on - different to Apple and Google. I said it one year ago and said it two years ago: Windows is dead. It dies a slow death, but it dies. Last year I said in five years you will not recognise the market of OS and affiliated work/pro software anymore. I see no reason to add reserves to that time prediction. For gamers, times will become tough if the other OS do not get their act together to support hardcore gaming and simulations seriously, and company alliances are not being formed between OS providers and game studios/producers. Games will be there, like there are so many already under Android, Apple, Google, but the vast majority of these are different than the game market for PC, and lack the equivalent support of gaming hardware that you have on PC. The most immersive gaming experiences you still get on the PC. In a wide variety of flavours. I wonder how long Microsoft will try to keep Windows 10 floating. There will be no new Windows after that, they said that already 5 years ago or so, when W8 got announced. And W10 once wa smeant to be a unifying platform: one OS for all kind of devices. In stead, due to their stupoiud policy chnages and drmaatic drop in tehcncial competence to support their OS reasonably, there now are in principles over one dozen diofferent kinds and types of Windows 10 - more than ever before. More than anythign else, this development might be the ultimate evidence of how dramatically Windows 10 has gone wrong. The future of private household computing seems to be Google, before Apple. Linux will never be founding a stronghold in private households, it failed to do so in the past 20 years, and I am confident that this will not change in the coming 10 or 15 years. Loss of privacy apparently is no issue for more and more people, like people also do not care that cash money is being wiped out - both has tremendously negative, dangerous consequences, and in both cases people just do not care. Well. People caring for their privacy would be precondition for Linux becoming more successful in the non-professional area of computing, since it has not only pros, but also contras and hurdles. Without that motivation, people will shy away from the difficulty.Much is good in Linux land, but its not all sunny sunshine only - there are clouds and shadows as well. Compared to that, Google appears to be the most attractive contester out there right now. If you do not mind to throw privacy out of your Window, it is the way to go. Except for grumpy guys like me, of course.