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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by robryan on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @08:07PM (#7512691)
The economics are in this area aren't at all good for someone new to come in. The price of the OS is trending towards zero and even the completely free to the end user linux hasn't made significant ground into the general desktop market for all the effort that has gone into it in the past 20 years.

Supporting everything is such a massive problem and it is hard to gain mainstream traction before people can plug in any combination of hardware, use almost any app they might want to and play all the latest games.

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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by lotu on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @08:38PM (#7512803)
Canonical has been trying to do that with Ubuntu. Unfortunately they and open source community haven't gotten along well enough and they haven't managed to apply enough polish to the UI.
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