On Monday 21 Nov 2011 20:05:21 Rony wrote: > Hello, > > Without trying to sound pessimistic, I get the feeling that Linux is > lagging behind M$ and at a time when its chances of catching up were the > best. The gaps that Linux had created in the M$ environment through > alternate compatibility appear to be getting slowly filled by M$ through > the process of vendor lock-in. Small changes are taking place but in a > way that brings people back to Windows. My bank's netbanking website > worked superbly in Linux but a recent upgrade in their software has made > the entire system Windows IE7+ only. OpenOffice upto 3.3 is unable to > save .docx files so it is being rendered useless for the new office > systems. Mobile phones still come with Windows only software for their > 'Suites' for full functionality on the pc.
Android phones sales are orders of magnitude higher than. M$ phones are 3% !. > There is not much happening > in accounting, architectural CAD and > multi-media packages too, ALL upn/dlna clients, servers and controllers are linux. M$ had ONE product - Xbox360 - en passant, now obsoleted. > in a way > that can replace the use of current commercial Windows based software. > It looks like it has hit the pause button. The big Linux giants do not > look interested either. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
