Thread: Microsoft buying Nokia's devices & services
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2014-04-24 , 05:14
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Originally Posted by FlashInTheNight86 View Post
Linux, the major alternative in different flavors, is too user-unfriendly to compete, at least so far.
Not really. Linux is in most ways superior to Windows in all computing environments, from the tiniest to the largest systems ever made.
Even as desktop environment Linux variants shine over Windows in usability and customability.

There's just one area that Windows is better than Linux, and that is in gaming. The reason for that is just because video chipset vendors do not open their interfaces to Linux developers, and do not themselves create drivers of similar specifications to Windows and Linux.


Originally Posted by FlashInTheNight86 View Post
Nokia was great but that Nokia is gone anyway. If Microsoft succeeds in mobile markets, that'd be great. Wish them best of luck.
Nokia is not going anywhere last time I looked, and it is doing currently better than in a long time. The future looks pretty bright too

Microsoft will also be in the mobiles for some time, as they do have barrels of cash to burn. And burn they will, in the end, but it is nowhere near yet. The market share of WP is negilible everywhere else than in finland, and it will probably start to dwindle here too in time.