What Windows Does Well
Yesterday I voiced the opinion that Linux (or anything else) would never replace Windows until it made life as easy for users as does Windows. In amongst all the sniping about Windows, detractors forget that Windows does some things well. They are critically important things, and doing them well is why Windows enjoys the position in the market place that it does today. Anyone that expects to take the place of Microsoft will need to do those things well, too.
Before we get to the short list of what a Windows replacement needs to do (tomorrow), let’s talk for a minute about the Linux system and the community that forms its biggest boosters. The Linux community does not understand that computer users, as a rule, really don’t care about the operating system. They just want it to do its job and stay out of the way. Any real involvement with it makes them nervous. That description fits perhaps 97 or 98 percent of users.
Linux proponents want to roll up their sleeves and really, really mess with their operating system. They want to fling those bits and examine those bytes. Sorry, but that’s not the way most of the world works.
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