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Originally Posted by cdhanks
It is the universities that has it backwards, the VAST majority of the business world 90+% use Windows machines.
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To note my school used to have macs (a few) but got rid of them.
The latest ones they installed were linux thin clients in a lounge area.
The idea of the operating system having a real meaning these days is pointless. Windows doesn't really dominate as much as what they used to because there are cheap programs. Unless something is totally specialized then people can get around windows.
What programs would these be?
Voice recongnition
rosetta stone
propreitary software made in the 80's or 90's
20/20 (kitchen design software cad stuff)
What really doesn't matter.
Web browsing. anyone can do it
desktop publishing. Libreoffice just came out and it replaces office with ease.
art programs - there's GIMP
If windows really worked well we would see it everywhere but we don't. Windows does not dominate e books, pda's, smart phones
Because of the general economy it just makes more economic sense to use open source. Especially since it is easier to adjust as the code is open. It also helps due to viruses. I worked at a place once where a virus affected the place and it took about an hour for me to remove..from each pc
What keeps people using windows for the most part at least in companies is there are programs made for it that there has not been a open sourced version yet. Now ROI can be established once you factor in the downtime for maintence etc. I don't have to run scandisk or defrag on my ubuntu laptop.I also don't need a virus checker. It took at least a half hour at that same job to run a antivirus checker..it's hard to justify people going to work to stare at a screen for a half hour and waste productitivty.