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Re:Why Microsoft needs three or more operating systems by 300bps on Thursday December 05, 2013 @12:34PM (#6855727)
What Microsoft needs to do, is abandon its secrets and OS property

You provide no support for this statement, so we're left to ask what you mean by it. What is your meaning? Before you answer, please look at this:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....

That shows that Windows is about 91% of the desktop operating system market. On what do you base them as needing to prove "it kicks ass and is still relevant in the 21st century"?

In fact, the one operating system on that chart that supports an "open-OS" ethos takes up less than 2% of desktop operating system market. I would think that operating system would be the one that needs to prove its relevance as we are almost 14 years into the 21st century.

Re:Why Microsoft needs three or more operating systems by scholia on Thursday December 05, 2013 @12:42PM (#6855786)
Somewhat sobering to remember that Linus released the first Linux kernel before the first beta of Windows NT (1992).