On Monday 25 September 2006 00:24, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > You _can_ make computers simpler to use. In that case, they won't > stay general purpose devices any longer. You can have one computer > for text entry, one for image processing, one for typesetting, one > for printing, one for gaming, one for playing audio and video, one > for web surfing, one for email
That is precisely what the market is delivering these days, set top box, media center, game consoles, phones that do everything except call. The majority use linux. If we are to total these into usage it should outstrip M$ sales by an order of magnitude. In the old days (atleast in Japan where text processing is compleXXX) u had wordprocessors too, a printer, monitor, keyboard and cpu rolled into one with spreadsheet and wordprocessing package. Knowing that they have lost the battle, u see M$ bundling wma so that they can fence in the playing field by tying up with like minded up stream crooks in the media companies. And wma is patent encumbered so no writing code by reading standards. M$ xml is another attempt in the same direction. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
