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Originally Posted by xendula
I do hope the analysts are right. The more they succeed in that space, the more alternatives we have.
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Me, too.
Especially because I think MS is in the right: we *will* need a common interface and app suite across all our toys. We are moving from Home LANs to personal LANs and personal clouds and we will need more homogeneity in our computing; dealing with different OSes, GUIs, and apps for our phones, tablets, PCs, TVs, gaming, and what-not is going to get old real quick.
And Apple's "just buy an iSomething" strategy is not going to work unless Apple starts making a whole lot more classes of devices, not just different sized phones and tablets.
We are moving into an environment where LINUX makes a lot more sense than ever but LINUX seem irretrivably fragmented and too obssessed with the IT community and its UNIX legacy to evolve into a lean and unified future-focused application platform. Basically, since LINUX belongs to nobody, nobody is willing or capable of mounting the kind of risky and expensive, bet-the-company unified effort MS is trying.
We may be headed into an environment where only the big boys can play the full game and everything else will fade into nichedom...