Windows is always going to be behind a free system, especially since all cool features invented by one get copied within a few weeks by others.
At most Microsoft can charge them less but even that will probably more than Android pays in licenses to Microsoft. Not sure what benefits can Microsoft offer them over Google, or maybe for an extra $10 (or whatever the license cost) manufactures won't care. Verizon, ATT and other have a vested interest to promote a third OS so who knows..
Another wild card is Nokia's purchase, Microsoft can easily eat a few dollars and flood the world with phones of all kinds
" Microsoft made sure no other system, free or not, has a breathing room"
I would believe this if Linux didn't dominate Microsoft in the server space.
Linux did hand Microsoft it's lunch--- in areas where the users who know what they were doing get a say.
Linux has always struggled with the non-technical user and ridiculous OS-size gui's have to be written for Linux just to make it palatable by the common user.
> Linux did hand Microsoft it's lunch--- in areas where the users who know what they were doing get a say.
> Linux has always struggled with the non-technical user and ridiculous OS-size gui's have to be written for Linux just to make it palatable by the common user.
I disagree with both statements. I found myself as a technical user that knows what he is doing and I do prefer to work Linux on the server side but I cry of frustration using my linux desktop at work. After all these years it still feels like a buggy hobbyist OS, with visual glitches everywhere.
I think the reason why Windows won't dominate the server space anymore is because Linux is free (as a beer) and a good gui doesn't matter too much over there (it is even inconvenient)
At most Microsoft can charge them less but even that will probably more than Android pays in licenses to Microsoft. Not sure what benefits can Microsoft offer them over Google, or maybe for an extra $10 (or whatever the license cost) manufactures won't care. Verizon, ATT and other have a vested interest to promote a third OS so who knows.. Another wild card is Nokia's purchase, Microsoft can easily eat a few dollars and flood the world with phones of all kinds