Thread: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
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ericsson is offline ericsson
2011-03-03 , 06:12
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#224
Originally Posted by 9000 View Post
Hmm...

Linux is successful in many areas from embedded system to super-computers. It's no question that Windows won the desktop market, though.

Also, the following picture would mean something to some people:

EDIT: Sorry! I just figured out the graph isn't titled. It is the OS adoption in supercomputers, by percentage...
I know Linux is used in supercomputers and in clusters, but that is a miniscule marketsegment in any count. To say that Linux is succesful in the embedded world is not right. The embedded world is gigantic. The most succesful OS of all is in fact Nokias S40. In any count RTOS rules the embedded world with a myriad of OSes, and they are not Linux based. People get the impression that Linux is used 'everywhere' simply because that is the only OS they know except Windows.