You haven't looked around lately at the backend servers for your ISP
My ISP is a major corporation. I'm pretty positive they use more Windows servers than not.
routers
Cisco uses Teh Lunix?
Tivo
I use Windows Media Center. It works great!
movie render farms
Um... OSX is Teh Lunix?
supercomputing clusters
Who cares what a narrow little niche research area is doing.
virtualization servers
Windows does virtualized servers as well.
or even a lot of cell phones?
Not enough, and not well. Perhaps you should have read my post before replying, since the main thing I wrote about was how Teh Lunix should focus more on mobile devices than the desktop market.
Please pay attention to what is actually being written. I'd say pay attention to what is being deployed... but 99.999% of Lunix zealots have never even been inside a server room, much less worked in IT.
I thought the real reason would be Microsoft envy. It's certainly not because it's secure, that's for sure.
But I certainly think it's amusing that people using an operating with a non-growing (despite being free) sub-1% market share think they are somehow "pressuring" Microsoft. You know who exerts pressure of MS? Large corporations. You know why? Because that's their target customer.
That's why MS changes their product... but perhaps not in ways an at-home consumer would like. MS views Windows as a network client which will connect to an Active Directory. For a home user, the only network connection will likely be the WAN connection to the internet, and it most certainly will not connect to an AD (nor will it probably be able to). But... that only makes sense if you understand that home users aren't MS's target customer.
Yeah, it's funny to pretend that an OS with less than a 1% marketshare is somehow a big player... but realistically speaking, what does Teh Lunix even bring to the table? Interop with MS is more important to Teh Lunix (WINE, anyone? Then some SAMBA?) than interop with Teh Lunix is for Windows. MS seems to have done kind of ok for themselves in the past decade without worrying too much about connecting with Teh Lunix. But how's Teh Lunix's marketshare doing, since they can't connect to Windows networks that well?
While Teh Lunix is good for certain things, I've always felt it's missing it's calling to operate in spaces nobody else is. Why FOSSies think it's a good idea to go head to head with Microsoft is beyond me. Windows has the desktop market for many reasons, and it's not because they "force" people to use Windows- if anyone says that, they deserve to be ignored.
I've never understood why more people didn't put work into making Teh Lunix friendlier for small and mobile devices. Perhaps the rationalle is that it would somehow be a step back, but the reality is that such a space is exactly where the future is. People aren't going to be carrying around AS-400s, so Teh Lunix needs to stop acting like that's the future.
Small device manufacturers are right now using a cludged together, ad hoc operating platform. There's no good standards- it works, and people are happy with that. But look at the iPhone: Apple slaps duct tapes a phone to an iPod, gets it working in a few months, and puts something close to a "real" operating system on it... and everyone is soiling their pants over it.
You guys want to take on Microsoft? Fine! Take on Windows Mobile: it's a piece of junk! Take on the iPhone, too. Take on Palm. Lunix should be lording over mobile devices. Instead, they waste time being an also-ran on the desktop, trying to out-Windows Microsoft in the market they dominate because they created it. The answer isn't to beat MS by making over a decade's worth of bad Windows 95 clones, the answer is to find a different market to dominate.
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Looking at the title I thought it's about forensic analysis of why my windows died.
It's because your computer is a piece of crap? And amazingly enough, that's not Microsoft's fault.
Stop buying garbage hardware.
It's pretty easy for the camera to pick me out without facial recognition.
I'm the fat guy.
I thought the real reason would be Microsoft envy. It's certainly not because it's secure, that's for sure.
But I certainly think it's amusing that people using an operating with a non-growing (despite being free) sub-1% market share think they are somehow "pressuring" Microsoft. You know who exerts pressure of MS? Large corporations. You know why? Because that's their target customer.
That's why MS changes their product... but perhaps not in ways an at-home consumer would like. MS views Windows as a network client which will connect to an Active Directory. For a home user, the only network connection will likely be the WAN connection to the internet, and it most certainly will not connect to an AD (nor will it probably be able to). But... that only makes sense if you understand that home users aren't MS's target customer.
Yeah, it's funny to pretend that an OS with less than a 1% marketshare is somehow a big player... but realistically speaking, what does Teh Lunix even bring to the table? Interop with MS is more important to Teh Lunix (WINE, anyone? Then some SAMBA?) than interop with Teh Lunix is for Windows. MS seems to have done kind of ok for themselves in the past decade without worrying too much about connecting with Teh Lunix. But how's Teh Lunix's marketshare doing, since they can't connect to Windows networks that well?
While Teh Lunix is good for certain things, I've always felt it's missing it's calling to operate in spaces nobody else is. Why FOSSies think it's a good idea to go head to head with Microsoft is beyond me. Windows has the desktop market for many reasons, and it's not because they "force" people to use Windows- if anyone says that, they deserve to be ignored.
I've never understood why more people didn't put work into making Teh Lunix friendlier for small and mobile devices. Perhaps the rationalle is that it would somehow be a step back, but the reality is that such a space is exactly where the future is. People aren't going to be carrying around AS-400s, so Teh Lunix needs to stop acting like that's the future.
Small device manufacturers are right now using a cludged together, ad hoc operating platform. There's no good standards- it works, and people are happy with that. But look at the iPhone: Apple slaps duct tapes a phone to an iPod, gets it working in a few months, and puts something close to a "real" operating system on it... and everyone is soiling their pants over it.
You guys want to take on Microsoft? Fine! Take on Windows Mobile: it's a piece of junk! Take on the iPhone, too. Take on Palm. Lunix should be lording over mobile devices. Instead, they waste time being an also-ran on the desktop, trying to out-Windows Microsoft in the market they dominate because they created it. The answer isn't to beat MS by making over a decade's worth of bad Windows 95 clones, the answer is to find a different market to dominate.