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Why New OSes Don't Catch On

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the same-reasons-restaurants-fail dept.

mopslik writes "OSNews has an interesting editorial discussing why smaller operating systems will have a hard time gaining popularity. Familiarity, developer participation, and market saturation are listed as reasons for failure. Although the article focuses mainly on Syllable and SkyOS, I'm sure there are countless other operating systems to which these arguments apply."

3 of 350 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Alot by NerdConspiracy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Alot is two words

  2. Voice is the new OS by Vryl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I can talk to the thing, I probably wont care about windows and menu's and things.

    There will need to be a big re-think about how things work.

    Some-one wake me up when this happens, pls...

  3. Re:Apps... it only takes one. by koreaman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Note to another AC:
    Twitter is the lamest person on all of slashdot. Please undrestand.

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