Eh, your average end-user will never want to put the kind of time and effort needed in learning vi, and this is the curve that linux and its open-source apps have to beat in order to become more popular. Vi is simple enough, but the point-and-clickability of Office programs trumps it.
Their current idea of growth is re-releasing a new version of Windows so all the kids have to run out and buy it and then evetually the old Windows becomes passe and embarrassing.
The increasingly computer-aware public has drifted away from them (look at how Mac sales have skyrocketed ever since they became hipper). I think it's a very real prospect for different OSes to start stepping in. Certainly the number of people using linux now is much higher than 10 years ago, when it was mostly a server tool and X-Windows was a joke.
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Eh, your average end-user will never want to put the kind of time and effort needed in learning vi, and this is the curve that linux and its open-source apps have to beat in order to become more popular. Vi is simple enough, but the point-and-clickability of Office programs trumps it.
Their current idea of growth is re-releasing a new version of Windows so all the kids have to run out and buy it and then evetually the old Windows becomes passe and embarrassing. The increasingly computer-aware public has drifted away from them (look at how Mac sales have skyrocketed ever since they became hipper). I think it's a very real prospect for different OSes to start stepping in. Certainly the number of people using linux now is much higher than 10 years ago, when it was mostly a server tool and X-Windows was a joke.