On 2015-05-15 6:11 PM, Anonymous wrote:
In article
JEDIDIAH wrote:

On 2015-05-14, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
On 13/05/15 14:12, Bubba wrote:


This decision has been made as part of the company’s effort to
rebrand "Windows as a service."

Read: you'll have to pay for it on an ongoing annual basis.

Haven't they been saying that Windows would kill Unix since the 3.5.1 days?

Unix has been relegated to legacy platform and niche device
status. Sure there are plenty of derivatives of it floating
around but it's not dummy friendly and never will be. Hence the
one thing that limits Unix from being embraced by the masses.
The bloat of Windows prevents it from being adopted as a niche
device OS, although Windows 10 is going to challenge that
perception.

http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapp...02/windows-10-
coming-to-raspberry-pi-2/

I don't see the Linux desktop going away. In fact, I think
Windows 10 will actually encourage the adoption of some Linux
desktops because of the cleaner uncluttered elegant Linux
desktop interface. Mint is a great candidate for example.
Easily configured too.

People said that with XP, repeated it with Vista, echoed it when 7 came
out and guaranteed it when 8 came out. No matter what terrible changes
Microsoft brought, people _still_ refused to use Linux. It's like using
a BMW and they changed the look of the dash and somebody tells you that
you can use a Ford Focus instead. You'll stick to BMW because you know
that Ford, in general, is awful... just like Linux.
--
Slimer
Encrypt.